Excellence requires discomfort.

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.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

A smile from the heart is a therapy that turns a bad moment to a gracious one.

You should've told me Tess, " I murmured against her hair. "You helped me find my humanness but you took it away with your lies.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

No one remembers who came fourth.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.