“I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.”

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.

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. It promises prosperity and sends adversity. It promises happiness and sends misery…. It is God’s worst enemy and the devil’s best friend.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

I knew a girl, her name was Truth. She was a terrible liar.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don’t ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.

People always say it’s a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don’t want my name to be added to that list.