The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.

Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and what we live are the same.

I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him.

That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

In the soft and gentle arms of a mother's love, children can come to know the voice of the Lord.

Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.

One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

I definitely like sneakers and shopping at sneakers stores.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language.

You don't go to a race track to finish second.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

There ain't no future in the past.