Healthy church membership means you find your joy in being last, instead of seeking your way and being first.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.

Some churches would rather die than to get out of the comfort of the past.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Faith and optimism are contagious.

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better.

We do not create our destiny

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and its a real drag.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.