I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.

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.

life is not about how fast you start, but how the end is going to be, so don't worry when others are ahead of you.just keep on doing what you have been doing.

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.