We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.