Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.
Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."
Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.
Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
We live in a time when people give up too easy.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.
Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.
A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe.
The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.
I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
