Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

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.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.

Life may suck but death is worse.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

I write and rewrite and memorize, and then inject my performance with improvising and spontaneity, because if something feels too rehearsed, it's not going to be fun.

Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.

If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical.

Any discussion of investment or putting monetary value on the environment must start with the populations who rely on those resources.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.