My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon they wanted more. So I realized I could not only minister to the Christian community, but I could also minister to the corporate community. So my books started crossing over, and then I began to intentionally have them cross over.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.