Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.