You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

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.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A life of nothing's nothing worth From that first nothing ere his birth To that last nothing under earth.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

These are not easy questions. Who am I? Why am I here? They're not easy because the human being isn't wired to function as an individual.

Efficiency obliterates identity