You've got to realize the world will never be the same.

God laughs at men's plans.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I want to make a difference.

Nashville will never be the same.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I'd make Jack Benny look like a philanthropist.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I see a huge paradox in me - the intense need to be loved and the search for approval juxtaposed with the need to nurture other people, to be the mother I never had.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.