Many times we will get more ideas and better ideas in two hours of creative loafing than in eight hours at a desk.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful, people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

Excellence costs a great deal.

I always think that there is the good and the bad of it all.

The United States and rich countries cannot change Africa from within. It has to impose reform on Africa; it has to come from within.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

The insecure way is the secure way.

I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.

You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.