Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.

Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.

Though your dream may be birth by you, it has eternal potential to impact lives and generations even after you.

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

YOU NEVER NEED TO APOLOGIZEFOR HOW YOU CHOSE TO SURVIVE

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.

It is not what you think should be, but what is, that is interesting. When you have the expectation that something should be such and such a way, you will never learn what your nature wants.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.