The church which is not a missionary church will be a missing church when Jesus comes.

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.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

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.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

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.

There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.

Be grateful for whatever it is that opens you up.

Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug, ' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.