Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
If you follow your dreams, it means you follow your heart. If you do follow your heart, I don't think you can go wrong.
I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.
The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible. . . 19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning.
I'm never going to be Tolstoy.
We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.