I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.