Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

I am not a broken heart. I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.