Just when the devil tries to steer me in the wrong direction I learn how powerful God's GPS really is. (Evil will not re-route my journey). He has mapped my success to the final destination.

Words, and faith, will only take you as far as your actions allow.

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift.

Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Some things are just out of your control. Make it work for you! The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present .

Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.

You can't be much good to others, if you're no good to yourself.

If you truly love who you are other's opinions won’t even matter.

If you have the desire, passion and enthusiasm to do something, nothing in the world will stop you.

Don't spend so much time chasing your future that you run over your present.

Once I had been introduced to depression, I realized if I wanted to help my friend and preserve our friendship, I needed to understand what the illness was all about.

Don’t hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.

fear is dangerous but fear is good

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.

No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.