We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.

To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.