If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

God is not about religion. Religion is a structure that should house our faith in God. Too often it is used to hurt other people in God's name.

Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

The more you notice the love, the miracles and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life.

The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take consistent and improved action over a defined period.

The best things in life are beyond money

A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!"

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

Now my fans are older and they understand how to appreciate me the same way I appreciate them for being there for me.