When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other-to be in a position to make the climb up life's mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.

Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust God.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.