Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.

In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself

Never give up when you really believe in something... just do you ...............

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.