“You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.”

If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.

It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn’t matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother’s unexpected need.

Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.

Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

At the end of the day, God’s love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water.

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it’s in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

The sudden release of five million barrels of oil, enormous quantities of methane and two million gallons of toxic dispersants into an already greatly stressed Gulf of Mexico will permanently alter the nature of the area.

Large areas of the Gulf have escaped being scraped by trawls, crushed by more than 40,000 miles of pipelines, or displaced by one of 50,000 oil and gas wells drilled since the middle of the 20th century. Some places have been deliberately protected.

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.

In London, you’ll be walking around and, ‘Oh, there’s the ground.’ Every area of the city has a Premier League club. They all survive; they all exist with enough money, and that’s good.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.