One thing I gained in my life is just the need for more Jesus in my life. You never come to a place in your walk with Jesus where you feel like you've had enough. That's a dangerous feeling to have.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again

When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

I have the choice to be angry at God for what i don't have, or be thankful for what i do have

The greater the struggle the more glorious the triumph

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.

It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

All over this world people are standing up for freedom.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

The tie's a multi purpose accessory, y'know, belt, school boy, Rambo.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

For us, the best time is always yesterday.

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.