I rather now strive to reach rather than wait to receive!

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

I live to inspire, not start the fire.

Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.

Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.

You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might be. But let me just say, a healthy relationship requires SACRIFICE and DEDICATION.

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

Do what you love or die a slow death doing what you hate

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

The light shines in our hearts.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

To be social is to be forgiving.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again