I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

Everything that humans have achieved until now, were once merely an imagination in someone’s head.

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Olympics, that sealed it: I was the champ.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

Do you know anybody who's come back with a firsthand report on heaven? If you do, let me know. Until then, you'll pardon me if I don't buy it.

Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.