Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

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.

Optimists are more qualified storytellers.

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

I've never supported this concept of going after Napster. I think the rock bands who fought this were wrong.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

My table seats eight, so that's my maximum. Having a small number of guests is the only way to generate good conversation. Besides, your whole house doesn't get wrecked that way.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.