Never ask advice from someone who has something at stake or something to lose from your decision. The more objective the person is the greater value you should place on the input.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

Whenever you are dealing with someone or something of unknown value the first one who places a value on it establishes its worth.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

Every flutter in her chest when he sat beside her, every flush to her cheeks after a compliment, and every longer-than-average embrace would end tonight.

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

Cheeseburger in paradise!

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation

I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.