Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.

Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.

There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.