The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.

When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe. It will work miracles in your life.

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

I think C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

The decisions you make today matter. Every decision points your life in the direction you are about to travel. No decision is an isolated choice. It's a chain of events. If you choose wisely, your future will reflect that. But if you don't choose wisely, the decisions you make now will take you to places you don't want to be later.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

We were sent here for something. And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose