“What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?”

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I’ve always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I’m an actor, but felt sorry for me because they’d never seen anything I’ve done.

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.

Your reputation is what people say about you. Your character is what God and your wife know about you.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don’t know me yet.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

I pity anyone who can’t laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can’t laugh.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God’s Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I’ll quit preaching.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.

Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can’t thank God and the industry enough.

So we can feel grateful for what we have been given. Sadness soon disappears and, in return, we get inspired to bless others.

New York has given me a lot, but I still don’t consider it home.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

To see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.