When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

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.

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.