I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

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Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing.

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Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.

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Money doesn't change who you are; it magnifies who you really are.

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I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.

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Never duck responsibility, its like running from the rain only to fall into the river.

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I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

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I'm a strong supporter of comfort breeds complacency. Growing up poor I wasn't comfortable, and my mom had to work so hard and I woke up one day and decided I was not going to come home until I could help her pay the bills.

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If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.

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We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.

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