Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

When we have suffered a little while, we are restored in strength.

It’s not just others that you need to forgive

I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.