Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

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.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.