“Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future.”

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth.

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God.

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you’ve been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

You can never change what you don’t confront and transform what you avoid.

We will never obtain God’s kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility… It insists on living its own life.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

It was a dream to arrive at Liverpool but I never wanted to just settle for what I had achieved. I wanted more.

We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully – through me, a little – the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.