"You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn."

"You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with love."

"Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God."

"Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home."

"One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on!"

"Winning or losing achieves the same result--change."

"Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom."

"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."

"Being popular doesn’t always win spiritual change. Christ didn’t pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point—to make people realize how much better they could become."

"When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain."