Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Any great teacher is a great student.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.