I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

Karate is for life, not points.

Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.

Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.

God's people, in God's place, under God's rule

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.