The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one.

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.

It's the kind of sage wisdom coming from a guy who was 25 at the time, but already had 20 years of experience. Kurt Russell is a wonderful actor and a great guy.