I've been a writer longer than I've been an actor. I wrote short stories like crazy when I was in high school and college. I worked in advertising before I moved to L.A. to pursue acting.

I've never been married, and I've never been divorced. But I have had some very serious relationships. I was engaged twice. The way that those relationships ended, it was very very heartbreaking.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three—those who depend on you must never see it.

Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Whether or not someone sexualizes you for wearing an outfit, that's their problem and not yours.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.