Then this is how you do it, ’ and kissed her slowly, letting time fade away. And he couldn’t remember any other kiss that felt quite the same.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I got to the end. Even then, it was not the hard surface of rock, but the scorching embrace of more.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

Home they brought her warrior dead.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

There are unquestionably links between al-Qaida and Iraq.