If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority, you create leaders

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Dreams are what life is made of and although most things are improbable, nothing is impossible. Be the dreamer of the impossible and you can see probability.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar For lovers love the western star.

I cannot live one day without love.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

If you model yourself after Lawrence Fishburne, you can never go wrong.

Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission.

Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.