Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line, that we fail to find joy in the journey.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back in the light of gospel truth.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is not an effort of once a week or once a day. It is an effort of once and for all.

The perfect place to begin is exactly where you are right now.

Heaven is filled with those who have this in common: they are forgiven and they forgive.

Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.

Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes.

We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

Music is part of being human.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

You judge people as you meet them.

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.