"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary."

"Bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a unyielding truth that bravery is born the moment you decide your values outweigh your comforts — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan."

"My three addictions of choice are food, love and work."