Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.