Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Don't get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life

...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.

If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.