You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. I think one of the most difficult things is every Sunday I am up there ministering, and so you have to have a fresh word, you have to be practical, you need to keep people's attention and so that comes around every seven days.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.