My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

The best students get the hardest lessons.

People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.