A prisoner unaware is the kind of prisoner most vulnerable to her captors, the easiest prey there is.

Let your light shine today, and let your personality blossom, too. You don't have to be a people-pleaser, just a people-lover.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

God uses change to change us. He doesn’t use it to destroy us or to distract us, but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion and destiny!

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

If you are not royalty, He is not King.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.

Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.

You learn a lot of different things with trials and tribulations and, at the end of the day, you get some positives from whatever mistakes you've made.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Acting is one of the most risky businesses you could ever be in. You literally do not know where your next paycheck will come from.

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.