It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.
Giving is the highest level of living.
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.
At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where the ego and the superego start, and where guilt and socialization and morality takes place, the true root of it.
When you hit the things that are relevant to the next generation, - it's a way for young people to feel like "Somebody understands me. Church is not irrelevant. I feel that my hurts are being addressed. Things that I am concerned about are being talked about. "
On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.
Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!