Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I have always believed in God.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I’ve never had writer’s block.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

Passions are the gales of life.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

We’re all dreamers.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.