“It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life.”

“If you write about the present it is very much more difficult to make things sound convincing. But writing about the past means that you are writing about a situation in which you know at least as much as anyone else.”

“One of the most important things I've learned is that creating a vision of what you want to be is the beginning of making it happen.”

“...we've already had one horrible thing happen today, which means that if you think about it the odds of anything else horrible happening again in the next few hours should now be quite low.”

“The one thing that I know about life, is that it doesn't always go as planned. What you do about it, is what makes you who you are.”

“God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.”