I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment, that makes them think.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

I felt it. I heard the snap of my heart tearing in half. It wasn’t a messy, dirty rip like I’d expected, but a smooth, clean line that knew just where to break to hurt me the most.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has been the critical decisive vote on many issues that go to the heart of who we are as a nation.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.