Worries don't motivate us, they reduce our energy and opportunity to shine.

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

No expensive car can keep life going except, strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.

We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.

You can't reign in obscurity you can't shine in your comfort zone.

Human strength plus intelligence cannot unlock the door that God is hiding its key.

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.

Forgiveness is the only battery that can power our relationship with God and other men like us.

Your approach and response to issues will determine how people will relate and deal with you per time.

Visionless people are prone to harm and trouble, because they always follow any path and end anyhow.

We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fall.

Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.

Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: 'We will laugh tomorrow about this.' And you do.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

I was always looking up to supermodels. They were, like, my superheroes.

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.