The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

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.

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

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.

Love, is there even a true description other than knowing your heart will cease to beat without that certain someone in your life?-Rusty Blackwood

Lovers, forget your love, And list the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze.

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.

You've got just one problem. You stand too close to the ball - after you've hit it.

The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice.

I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.