There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood.

The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?

Put your Body First!

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

I need nothing in this world in order to be happy. I only need to see Jesus in heaven, Whom I now see and adore on the altar with the eyes of faith.

But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.