I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Giving opens the door to abundance.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.