“More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.”

The real deal is always going to win in the end.

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

The leader is the organization’s top strategist… systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Our conduct will never change God’s character.

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.

I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father – authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don’t even let go. It lets go of itself.

Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.

My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.

I think talented people are priceless. And I think people that are knowledgeable and experienced – and I think there’s a balance of new talent and experience, which makes, I think, Estee Lauder really special.

And the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world,

Feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.