Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

A great man may commence life in a hovel.

I’m past photographing to see what things look like photographed.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.