I wanted to leave Eight Is Enough for the Navy.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.