Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

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.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

I'm yet to discover any form of theocracy that isn't homophobic, that isn't bigoted to the out group.

My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.