If I'm going to follow a god, why would I want to follow a god of my creation? That would be an alcoholic idiot nitwit jerk god!

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.

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

You dare travel on sacred road, although you may not know the end.

We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.We let the stars shine into us.

That moment I felt a bit like crying. I don't really know why. Nana's hand felt so warm that it even warmed my heart.

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.

I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.