Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

To get leaders to become stakeholders in ministry and to understand the DNA of your church, you must invest in them, equip them, and raise the bar of accountability.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.

Most people know who believes in them.

Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

It seems like a dangerous concept to have someone who's just your drinking buddy. Someone you have nothing in common with, if you're sober, is probably not a good, healthy friendship.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.