Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

When we serve the poor and the sick we serve Jesus. We must not fail to help our neighbors, because in them we serve Jesus.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

All the days that you wake up you have one job and that's to get better, every single day.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

Need from destiny change with time.

Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.