If I'm a secure person, my online persona is going to be pretty similar to the person that I am. If I'm insecure, my online persona is probably very different from who I am in real life.

We miss extra bits of knowledge that can add value to our lives. We sort of lack empathy because we're multitasking all the time.

I'm not a fan of the selfie. I think it's at the heart of the narcissism that social media brings into our lives.

Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.

I wouldn't say anyone is 100% honest online. I don't see how it's even possible.

Each person can achieve balance by cutting a few things out and seeing how it goes. If you cut something out, and it goes well, and your life is better, you keep doing it.

If you can pinpoint the moments in social media that are really negative experiences, those are the ones you can cut out. And when you do, you recognize how much better your life is.

We're all not exactly the same person online that we are in real life. I am not as happy as my Instagram makes me look. We are all heightening the positives and downplaying the negatives.

It becomes very difficult for us to adjust to a world without social media because we spend so much time involved with it.

One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.