Senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, America's biggest megachurch. He is the best-known preacher of the prosperity gospel, a theology asserting that God rewards faith with material wealth. "I can't be a big blessing to people if I'm poor and broke and depressed," he said on the Oprah show.
(German philosopher) Georg Wilhelm Hegel, on his deathbed, complained, "Only one man ever understood me." He fell silent for a while and then added, "And he didn't understand me."