Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.

If you're as good as you're going to be, life's as good as it's going to get.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

I base all of my relationships on trust, and I try to prove that trust to begin with, and so there isn't any question.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god's sake would it kill you to smile.

I have had just about all I can take of myself.