Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.

There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

I'd love to work with Francis Ford Coppola. I met Coppola on an airplane.

When you tour you become more intimate with your audience. It's like I need reassurance that they like me or at least find me relevant. And that I can still do it.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!