I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty I want to see your enthusiasm.

Grace cannot prevail...until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

Jesus came to raise the dead. He did not come to teach the teachable; He did not come to improve the improvable; He did not come to reform the reformable. None of those things works.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

We are not saved by what Jesus taught, and we are certainly not saved by what we understand Jesus to have taught. We are saved by Jesus Himself.

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is.

Salvation is a gift given, not a bargain struck.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

The cross I made needs no man on its chest, for its eyes are where its heart is.

How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

Honestly, I'm always aware of the political implications of the movies that I make.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

In my opinion, we need to again consider the possibility of public funding of congressional elections, following the very successful experience with clean money systems in Maine and Arizona.