Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

Your life moves to a better place when you move at a sustainable pace

The people you listen to are a preview of the future you.

Who is in your life asking you the tough questions?

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

Listen more than you talk.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well.

Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.

Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.

After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

How does one get bored of life?

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?