Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Watchman what of the night?

I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

I think things are gonna change. I'm gonna take the age limit off of hip hop.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it.

Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.