In battle, one must adhere to one's beliefs.

The Lord can cause a vision to turn into reality

So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only.

Love yourself. Be proud of who you are.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.