The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.

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.

Do what you can while you can.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work with them again, and hopefully vice versa.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

...Love isn’t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

Now that doctors have stopped making house calls, lots of patients now have to die without their help.

The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.