Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value!

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.