God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.

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 teach your children, teach them the Truth of God.

It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

If I have an agenda or a goal, no one is going to deter me from what I want to do.

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.