Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

I've probably put my 10, 000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

A couple of words is all it'll take to make everything in my life Before and After.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.

"I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.