Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest keeping a journal.

If she wanted to write Christian fiction, how was she to go about it? I told her that if she is truly and deeply a Christian, what she writes is going to be Christian, whether she mentions Jesus or not. And if she is not, in the most profound sense, Christian, then what she writes is not going to be Christian, no matter how many times she invokes the name of the Lord.

Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.

You become what you digest into your spirit. Whatever you think about, focus on, read about, talk about, you're going to attract more of into your life. Make sure they're all positive.

Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day.

When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and opportunities to you.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.

Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

If you can manage your thoughts and mind, and choose your battles wisely, you can manage your life.