To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.