You can't have healing without sickness.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

One of the only things more powerful than the human heart is the that it takes to heal one that has been broken

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

Scientists should not do animal testing if there is any alternative, but subject to that, I would support it on grounds of the medical benefits.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.