Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

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.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

It's going to be unbelievable, you know. There's going to be a lot of people cheering for Mark McGwire and me. And, hey, we'll see how it goes.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.