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

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.

Being consumed by what people think of you is the fastest way to forget what God thinks of you.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brainsSuch shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.