I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

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.

Learn from the Sun

If it were easy it would not be any fun.

There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.