My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you to carry out your mission and realize your gift

Your respect for people does not mean you need themThis is your morality, even if they do not deserve it.

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

Dance music was really leading the way in the U.K., Europe and Australia. America was always about hip-hop and R&B.