Before doing any interviews I like to know who I'm meeting with and get a bit of an idea of their sensibilities.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us, and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

We've just let too many things happen. And now, try to turn around and fix it. Getting involved in a [Syria] civil war directly was never something I thought made sense.

The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Better not to give in to it.