- "If you want to be a great leader of people you have to get away from people to be with God."
- "Spiritual leaders have a holy discontentment with the status quo."
- "Leaders must be able to digest depression because they will eat plenty of it."
- On tactfulness: "There is a big difference between saying, 'Your foot is too big for this shoe" and 'This shoe is too small for your foot.'"