“You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.”

“Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.”

“Gotta love your man, Girl you gotta love your man, take him by the hand, make him understand.”

“It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand.”

“Life may deal you a bad hand or take away a good hand you were already dealt. The way you play the hand is how your life is defined. Just like in poker you can end up winning no matter how bad the cards are you have.”

“Fate deals you a hand, and you play the hand you are dealt. You do not whine, you do not complain. That, he used to believe, was his philosophy. Why then can he not resist these plunges into darkness?”