Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.

When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.