Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat!

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Ask yourself this question everyday: What is it about me that other people would change if they could?

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Sometimes I feel like a sisterless child.

There are no inevitabilities in history

Do not envy those who seem to be naturally gifted; it is often a curse, as such types rarely learn the value of diligence and focus, and they pay for this later in life.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.