The church has given me balance.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.