Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

I was only able to move forward once I let go of my fear of leaving him behind.

Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.