Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'

I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.

When we give it all, we can live with ourselves - regardless of the results.