It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.
You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
It ain’t what people call you. It’s what you answer to.
It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
I didn’t have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don’t, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
In that day, we didn’t have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!
You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.
I don’t think the dreams die – I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren’t a lot who get to see them realized.
Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.
My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I’m doing, God is pleased with that. It’s complete peace for me.
I’m not sure why no one wants to admit there’s a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not.
Very early on, when I started doing these plays and live shows, I would travel from city to city, and there were a million shows out there… so I wanted to step out among it, and I started putting my name above the title.
I want to own a network. I want to own a network where you can turn it on with your family all day long and get positive reinforcement.
Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I’m not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they’ll keep it up.
I don’t know about marriage as much as I do know that I’d be a great father.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed – for the most part, every family’s got them.
The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.
I’ve never chased money. It’s always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.