How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply so it seems to me.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

For the record, if there's anyone who could flirt with a mountain range, it's probably the person standing in front of you.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

He never holds friends firmly who watches only after their own wants.

Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.

Dialogue cannot exist without humility.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.