No matter what you’ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!

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.

It is the attention we give to bad situations that stops us from getting out of them.

But it feels good just getting it out—letting someone else know how much hatred I’m harboring.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Working with my brother is something that I've always wanted to do. He's one of my best friends.

What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.