If you are not offending some Pharisees, you are not being effective.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Grief. This is what it does to people. It makes them strangers to themselves.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.

There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.

I'm single by choice. Not my choice.