Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

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.

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.

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.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

Love is pure

For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

When I was a child, the African forest sounded like a dream to me, because it was full of animals and it was wild.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.

We cherish too, the Poppy red That grows on fields where valor led, It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.