The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

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.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Be whoever you want to be. Party all night if you want. Just come home to me.

I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.