“My father and mother had two simple rules about truth and living a long life: Rule Number 1: Don’t ever lie to me.  Rule Number 2: Don’t ever forget Rule Number 1.”  DeWayne McCulley

“You have to be twice as good to be good – don’t fight it, figure out how to be that good and do it.” Melcan McCulley (my father)

“Boy, you tell them doctors that there is a science (listen to me now), tell them there is a science that is bigger than medical science – that science, it’s called God’s science, and God’s science can fix any disease.” Minnie McCulley (my mother)

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

“The inferior physician treats the disease once it occurs. The mediocre physician prevents the disease from coming back. The superior physician prevents the disease from ever occurring.” Old Chinese Proverb

“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost . . . therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
 
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” Colin Powell

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death …” Psalms 23:4

“He causeth the grass to grow for cattle, and herbs for the use of man.” Psalms 104:14

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Christopher Reeve

“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.” Albert Schweitzer

“The road to success is through commitment.” Will Smith

“Cancer can take away all my physical abilities, it cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things will carry on forever.” Jim Valvano

“A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”  Booker T. Washington

“What I’ve learned from God personally is that as soon as you get the lesson, it’s over . . . that’s what Grace is.” Oprah Winfrey

“I don’t believe in failure. It is not a failure if you learned during the process.”  Oprah Winfrey

“Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.” Stevie Wonder

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

“Life's not the breaths you take, it's the moments that take your breath away.” Anonymous

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.” Anonymous

Inspirational Quotes
The following are quotes from some well-known people (in alphabetical order) that I found to be very inspirational when I was tutoring high school students and at different times during my recovery.

Some of these quotes were given to me by my mother, my daughter Cynthia and my brother Greg.

Hopefully, one or more of these quotes hits a special chord within you and will help you on your journey to wellness: to control, beat, and reverse your Type 2 diabetes.

“To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best.  If you’re not, pretend you are.”  Muhammad Ali

“Courage may be the most important of all virtues, because without it one cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.”  Maya Angelou

“Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler.  I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time.  So He said, Let’s see if you can juggle another one.”  Arthur Ashe

"You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right." Jack Canfield

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not -- nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not -- unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not -- the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race." Calvin Coolidge

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”  Bill Cosby

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Frederick Douglass

“You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created the problem. You must change the way you think.” Dr. Wayne Dyer, author of The Power of Intentions

"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

“He’s the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.” Benjamin Franklin

“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.” Morgan Freeman

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”  Ghandi

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” Billy Graham

"My people perish for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6

“Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food.” Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine

“No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper.” Isaiah 54:17

“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.” Earvin (Magic) Johnson

"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world." Malcolm X

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." Martin Luther King

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the staircase." Martin Luther King