My friend, when you always say "God is in control", while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up!

What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container!

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

Sometimes you try to fly and you fall. Remember your falls are not fatal, they're just a little painful. Endure the pain, clean the blood stain, you'll surely gain! Get up and fly again!

Those who die with their music still on their tongues unsung are trying to say “God had made a deal with the wrong customer like me

Never turn your back to those who have faced your problems on your behalf. Never shut your mouth on those who have opened their hearts to receive you!

When the thing that your heart strongly loves to do is the thing world hungers and thirsts to see done, then that's what you were called to do. You must never leave it undone!

When there is too much sorrow in your heart, true compassion gets its ways out of it. Don’t make a will over your sorrow, nobody needs to inherit it!

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Before you can positively and passionately pursue what your heart love to do, you must first be grateful to the one who gave you such a heart to love such a thing!

Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind!

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success.

I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.

The Democrats want corporations to shut down and move, because it allows them to tell you how rotten and mean corporations are.