Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing!

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both.

Life is too short to be a boring company.

We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.