You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

The T.D. Jakes Relationship Bible: Life Lessons on Relationships from the Inspired Word of God.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.