We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart...

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

What we believe spirit visitors to be influences how they affect our lives. What we believe ourselves to be dictates how we react to them.

Ethics to me is very important.

I'm just grateful my dad never got a contract with Donald Trump, because I don't know what we would have done.

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.