You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

To be committed means you are willing to make a promise with no exception of return.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.