I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.

The only way to know is to learn, relearn and unlearn.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

I'm always sticking up for other people.

A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.