You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat!

In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Opportunities are born by learning!

Trust and believe, and you will achieve.

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come.

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

I have a pretty lousy voice.

You're giving me two choices, and I'm choosing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I would choose Jesus over Donald Trump, probably. But you're just giving me two choices.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

What if I never stop inventing?

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.