If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

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

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

...I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.

Your first impressions will often occur within a limited window of opportunity—and if you blow it— the opportunity may be lost forever.

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

I've got to get stop getting fired like this. People will start to think I'm a drifter.

We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.