When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I’ll never be hands-on on anything except software.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

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

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Rap was my drug.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

We should play free football, defend lively with a passion, and have the best understanding in offence.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

When we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

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.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Reason is the enemy of faith.