Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

I hold the memories of you in my heart.

You must stay away from the one who brings nothing but heartache and death. Do you hear me? He brings nothing but death. Always has.

A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live in it, there's no safer place in the world than its beating.

Today like every day roughly 5, 000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.