Where you have been isn't half as important as where you are headed. Keep your sights and focus on the future.

Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!

Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.

Though your dream may be birth by you, it has eternal potential to impact lives and generations even after you.

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn’t do when you started.

Grace is an empowerment to be above and beyond reproach, to live your life at a standard that pleases God.

Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

I would lie, because no one would know me anyway. My grandmother convinced me to be proud of what I do.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.

I found Elvis on the Internet, I went camping with a young cadet, he showed me his bayonet.

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

You have to have a very well-balanced life to be able to perform very well.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.