I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Tough times never last, but tough people do

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.