Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Your life is determined by the sum of the choices that YOU make.

My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.

I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.

I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.