You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Valentine's Day is my mother's birthday. If I'm wildly in love, I've sent people chicken hearts, which seems to appeal to the kind of person that I've been in love with.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.