..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever.

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.