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

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.

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.

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level.

My heart is not available for hurt.

We live in a universe driven by chance, ” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.

I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.

Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I am decidedly unfriendly during a golf game, from the first hole to the last.