Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Start with yourself, strive for continuous improvement, perfection doesn't happen right away

Failure is almost always success wrapped in a blanket of redo possibilities... It is up to you to reframe the outcome ~bns

Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness of eyes, and the harpsichord strings behind the kneecaps.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

President Obama met with leaders of the American Indian tribes and they honored the president by giving him his own Indian name: Running Deficits.

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.