You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

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.

I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

Shirley! Don't call me Shirley!

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.