If he hasn't lined up the who he is, the what he does, and the how much he makes in the way that he sees fit, he can't possibly be to you what he wants to be.

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.

My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

You are never too old to reinvent yourself.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

Everybody by your side ain't on your side