Vision is a picture of a desired future; a picture of something that I don't possess right now, but it is something I want to see and experience, and something I want the people I am leading to experience.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.