Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.
Why live for the approval of men when you can have the approval of their Creator? What can they give you that God can't?
Character isn't who you are when life goes your way. Character is who you really are when the bottom falls out.
Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.
If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.
Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
The Trump administration's economic agenda is the right agenda. Corporate taxes have been driving capital and brains and companies overseas for a decade. It has caused huge damage in investment and jobs and productivity. It was a mistake. We have to fix it. Counterintuitively, that usually helps middle-class wages, and lower-class wages, and job formation.
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.
I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.
When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information shehe has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that shehe has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.