The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.
Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.
Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.
In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.
I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.
I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?
For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
