My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.

The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.

What you do in the off season determines what you do in the regular season.

Writing time has to be created.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

America still is an exceptional country. We love to lead and we love to win. And we do it, when we take on any challenge and when we take - we support our friends.

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

A few people have said I should let you win