God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Coachable leaders are ready and willing to make the needed changes and adjustments in their lives.

Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!

Two types of leaders: there are thinkers and there are doers. Some are idea generators and others are the implementers.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Hearing God’s voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.

My past made me a stronger and wiser person because I learned from its valuable lessons without dwelling on regrets and excuses.

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

The future of human society. Had it made an irrevocably false start? The compass error that gets harder to correct with every mile you go?

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.