“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.”

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.

It is not necessary to be in a big place to do big things.

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions.

I sold my soul to rock ‘n’ roll.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not!

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

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.

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.

Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that’s wrong so we miss the big picture of all that’s right.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

I don’t make big grand gestures, generally.

I’m not that big, physically. I’m just big where it counts – I got a big heart!

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big’.

I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.

Maybe you have to be smaller if you want to see bigger things. To see how the sky looked prettier from the ground.