The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD

God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer.

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.