Application is why we study the Bible.

... misfortune and creativity go together.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Foppery is the egotism of clothes.