The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

God laughs at men's plans.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I want to make a difference.

Nashville will never be the same.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

Citizen's arrest, " he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it).