God’s desire is that we excel.

Never regret what you don’t write.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

God’s first line of defense – and offense – for every situation is prayer.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

What keeps me going is goals.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.