Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

She wrote love with her smile and magic with her eyes.

But how sane can the mind really be if it doesn't even know its own depth?

When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.

Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this in mind, it would be impossible to sin.

All great things have small beginnings.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

I have a fax machine with "fax waiting".