It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God’s thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

To hope is not to demand.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

People like to help, providing they can do it reasonably easily

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.