Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?

The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

To get where you want to go, you first have to become who God wants you to be.

Anything you don't water, anything you don't take care of in your life, is going to die.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

The path to success requires you to commit.

Commit to a career built on sacrifice, not compromise.

Even though she would dream of love, respect, and unfettered romance... it was a cyclical dilemma in her life that she seemed to be most attracted to poisonous men.

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

If you think you're smart, think twice to be smarter.

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

Just play every hand, you can't miss them all.