Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

Art is not a thing

A writer should never wait for inspiration but be the inspiration.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.