Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

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.

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.

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.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

Train your mind the same way you’d train a puppy: Be patient, be consistent, and have some fun along the way.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

To live a life of honesty and integrity is a responsibility of every decent person.

I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.

Percy," my mom said. "I give you my blessing." "Be safe brother!" Tyson pleaded. "Enchiladas!" Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.

You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?