When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

Often what may appear as a detour in life is actually the most direct and empowering path to your destination.

While the cat's away, the mice will play.

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. your current results are who you were.

Stay focused

I like home. It’s warm and there are books.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

Sir, will you marry me?

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand, and touch another person.