A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So you may be a Christian and say "my morality is based on the Bible." But if it doesn't line up with the way they think it should line up, now you got a problem with them. And then you can say, "I'm more in line with the Bible," but you don't care about the Bible, so they are like 'why are you imposing these difficult rules on me? I don't even believe in that.' So you just have an interesting and sticky situation.

The church didn't know what to do with Ray Charles or Al Green. And so they were kind of ostracized.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

Some of us are more concerned with our reputation than our character. The latter takes care of the former.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.