I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ.

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.

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.

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.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

The honester the man the worse luck.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.

The practice of yoga only requires us to act and to be attentive in our actions.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.