"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try."

"Worry is interest paid before it's due."

"Remember that failure is an event, not a person."