If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

A champion is defined by the adversity he overcomes

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

As long as we acknowledge them, there's nothing to fear.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy.