The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

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.

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were.

What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

Where there is hope, there is no despair.

Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.