Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

Better to do planning, Rather than being planned.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narratives, you have to create the situations so that the truth will come out.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special to human beings.

A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.