I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

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.

Let the sunflowers of thy soul bloom in the sunshine.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

I am more than ever convinced that communism is on the march on a worldwide scale which only America can stop.

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.