When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Illusion means to weigh right and wrong with the same scale.

Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.