With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

There must be a stronger foundation than mere friendship or sexual attraction. Unconditional love, agape love, will not be swayed by time or circumstances.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional.

Get in God's word every day. God's word equips us for everything we do.

You must choose to live by enouragement rather than by expectations.

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.

Excellence means representing the reputation of Christ well. It means doing all things as best as you can...

I'm not trying to force something, but I do enjoy working behind the scenes and I do enjoy bringing all of the ingredients to the kitchen so that we can make the movie.

There is good to be found within anything bad. Even within the death of your own father.

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.

We love to love and feel loved because love is the greatest pleasure of all.

The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.