Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

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.

When you start talking about same-sex marriage, you start talking about abortion, and I think those issues are very very important and very interesting and very right for us to talk about, but when we allow those issues to cannibalize all other issues we find ourselves homeless while we debate about it.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.