Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.

Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.

Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.

The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Oh, how daily life is.

I liked writing, and I loved movies, obsessively loved movies, but I had never made the leap of thinking I would actually come out here and write stuff.

When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.