Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Children listen best with their eyes. What you do is what they hear.

Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

May my children, fear, know and walk with God.

Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you—and through you perhaps history can be changed.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.