When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to the blessing of pruning, knowing that the change that will take place in us, will take us places.

Joy is a choice, and it’s something we fight for and choose.

We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

You are one belief away from breakthrough. It’s a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it!

You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.

Surrender and sacrifice sets you up for success with God.

Everything fades away when we lock eyes with the one who calls us His own.

Do you want the truth or fiction?

Another piano falls, but this time it's me— or my lascivious loneliness, or my grab bag of mental instabilities and emotional shortcomings, or whatever.

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.