Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.