...the real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

If you can't get a miracle, become one.

Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs.

Without trust in the possibilities for your life, where would you be? Where would any of us be? Our hopes for the future give us momentum.

Instead of dwelling on that pain within, reach out to someone else's pain.

We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are.

You should never live according to what you lack.

Mental energy is powerful. Direct its strength towards our positive aspirations rather than empowering unsubstantiated fears.

When we challenge ourselves with goals requiring us to stretch beyond previous accomplishments, we become more sensitive to our true potential.

To pray is to praise.

Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.