Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

Everything you do matters to all of us forever.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

We are all in situations of our own choosing. Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure. By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.