You need to be moving if you want God to show you which way to go.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

My goals exceed the reach of my energies, but my God exceeds the reach of my goals.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

Pursuing a God-ordained passion, no matter how crazy it seems, is the most responsible thing you can do.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.