We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.

Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

Any person that says, "Of course I wouldn't do ______" doesn't know their own heart.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

I fell in love, and she fanned my flames. They spread to soon, Quickly and uncontrollably. I had finally found the one willing to catch fire, side by side, while the world watched us burn.

Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.

I hate studying and I hate partying. But I'm okay with motocross. And muscles.Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'