I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.

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.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart.

If you want to create vital, long-lasting love, you must become a master of verbal & nonverbal appreciation

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you.

I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him

People readily believe what they want to believe.

All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!

The process is the most beautiful part.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.