Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.

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

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

Instilling values of faith at an early age is important. Listening them through adolescence comes more important than teaching because if you haven't instilled in them at early ages now it's time to listen and get your report card and let them find their way and then as an adult let them stand aside.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.