What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.