Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.

...people live longer when they decide to become passionately involved in something beyond themselves.

Jesus says, "Here's the deal! I'll leave My place. I'll come to your place. I'll take your place. And then we'll go to My place.

...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.

At the end of the day most folks do exactly what they want to, so we need to focus on the want to.

We all want to look good, but genuine goodness is in the heart.

American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

Should haves lead to death

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'