Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

The path to success requires you to commit.

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

The hard part is choosing to change what needs changing.

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.