when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.