Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

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

I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?

Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

It does a man good to see his lady being brave while she has their baby... it inspires him.

Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.