The starting point for greatness is to know what to do with your life.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy.

Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy. Solitude is also a place to receive great ideas and creative ideas from God. The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.

You can come into the rest of God through solitude.

It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that opportunity.

God has made the provision for every man on earth to be equally endowed.

Every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine providence.

We are products of their wisdom or lack of wisdom.

This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.

The world gives a way to the man who knows where he is going.

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.

After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

My greatest achievement would be my nursing degree and my dream job that followed. I worked so hard to get where I am now, and I wouldn't imagine doing anything else.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.