It's important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.

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.

...I got to chase my dream for a while, see what it's like, but this—" He stood and swept his arms wide. "This, and my family, is worth any price.

All the stars are a riot of flowers.

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.