Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Pray and mediate on the Scriptures.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

We have more control than most of us realize. Each day is filled with thousands of opportunities to change the story of our lives.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

... and yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days...

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.