I just think that humans were created to look upward

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

We dont know Gods plan, but we do know were pretty blessed and God expects us to do something with that.

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

The image I gravitate towards are spunky women, women who talk back.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Rule no man other than your soul.

I would probably be a linebacker today. I wouldn't be carrying the ball 20 or 25 times a game.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

Practice makes us what we shall be.