Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

True love is all about your love and not the one you love.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.

There aren't many things a man finds more appealing than loyalty. Unless it's a woman with really big knockers.

The refusal to change by clinging onto superficial material wealth at any cost today, is a certain sentence of death tomorrow for all future priceless life entities we have come to love and know.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.