It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking.

Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!"

God is not preparing the Blessing for YOU, He is preparing YOU for the Blessing

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.

God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

As far as a career legacy, I just want to be known as the guy everyone had to watch for, constantly.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

Books are more real when you read them outside.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

I have six children and I love all my kids more than anything in the world.