People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.