We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Without the ice, the earth will fall

People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.