It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.