What endurance is to the body, is what perseverance is to the mind.

Guard your heart:Mysterious things happen in there.Stand as the watchman of your soul, And be careful about what you let in.For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!

Love is more than feelings, yet feelings are important. Love is more than words, yet words are important.Love is a commitment to do, say and be the best you you can be for someone else.

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a foolWorking at something that that doesn't look cool.Never mind if people mock you from their stoolWhen you are enthroned they will drool!

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

Perseverance is persistent insistence.

Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past.

I've always felt I deserved a wider audience, so thank you for reading this.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.