When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.
Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger.
Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.
One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.