Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

God's plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours.

Sin doesn't make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn't make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

You don't have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Smile, it’s the second best thing youcan do with your lips.

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

I never had peace of mind.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.