The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

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.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

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.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

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.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Only an 'almost,' a 'nearly,' is possible.

What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

If I interview people, I would get to know many lives and experiences that I haven't been through myself.

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans.

Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there.

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.