If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

My truth could be very different than your truth.

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?" "No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

I'm a romantic fool. I always end up getting hurt.

I'm actually a very bad surfer, which is good because everybody likes a bad surfer. Nobody likes a good surfer.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

It's harder to write two people happy and in love than two people fighting and driving each other crazy.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.