My children are now adults and just kind of guide them while they allow you to have input in their lives without controlling them the way you did when they were toddlers. These are good steps to use for fathers at each step of their children's lives.

The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

Don't try to change the package more than you try and change the product.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.