Just because the economy is down, doesn't mean that your spirit has to be down with it.

A man does not need encouragement to lose his heart.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I don't care about walks, I care about production

Goals happen to be restrictive to me. Goals can cause me to maybe miss out or make a wrong decision on an opportunity that pops up.

There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.