We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

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.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

I've always got about four albums in my head.

Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

Young people understand that you don't have to wear or eat animals. I get that it can be cheaper to use animal products - but using animals really cuts corners.