When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

You come to America, and, if you do a big TV show, then you can be overexposed, or old, before you're new.

You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

...the still point in a turning world.