Don't build your ministry on what you're against. Build your ministry on what you're for.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

we can do anything when we decide to win no matter what!

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.