Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.

Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.

When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value.

Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!

Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.

Denominations divide while the cross unites.

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds.

Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.

Grace is that turning point from feeling hopeless to becoming empowered.

A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.

Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm just trying to put good things out there.

Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.