I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

Books are like horcruxes--without all the evil--because a piece of the author goes into each one.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.