Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess.

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

A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too.

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch.

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.