Any great teacher is a great student.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

...brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Time is the dressing room for eternity.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.