I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun - not because I can see it, but because by it I can see everything else.
It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.
The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.
Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!
I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.
You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.
Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God's statutes and nothing else.
A single day in my own shoe that is comfortable for me is better than 365 days in someone else's shoes that does not fit me at all.
