You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together.

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Wonderful, glorious things are in store for you if you will only believe, obey, and endure.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The future is the past in preparation.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

It's not a contest, and I ain't on no conquest for no mate.

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

You gotta hang out with people who have big dreams and believe in that dream.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.