To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.

When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Is it just me or am I the only person that didn't receive an invitation to the Grand Ball so many call life?

A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.