When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

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.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

Set a clear focus in your life, and fear will be crowded out. The more you fix your eyes on God’s purpose for you, the more you will overcome your fear.

LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter, a shade thrown over his face.What a waste, I thought.What relief.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.

America didn't need repeal, she needed repentance!

Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.