At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic