I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

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.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…

I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

All I know is "make a joyful noise unto the Lord", and I do that whatever opportunity I get.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.