To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Your race is your diminishing life

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.