I was raised to face any challenge.

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.

Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company

Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.

No place is a place until it has found its poet.