I've worked with children all my life.

Put God first in everything you do ... Everything that I have is by the grace of God, understand that. It's a gift ... I didn't always stick with Him, but He stuck with me.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I like to set my dreams high. That way, even if I only make it half way there, it's still pretty darned good.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

And I, unfortunately, have been to too many disasters as president.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

You're beautiful in your wrath.

The ocean doesn't want me today, But I'll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard's away But the ocean doesn't want me today