The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I'm not really sure what it was, the best moment. You always hope it's to come.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in...

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

"What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you," the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true."

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....

You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.

For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, What are you made of? After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life...

If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.

It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even if it falls down and shatters into pieces

I love it when there's nothing left to see but tiny spots of what's still light. Stories piercing the night.

Give sometimes everything will be alright.

Everyone needs someone and there is someone for everyone.

Life can be awful. Life can be ugly. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

There is grace for survival in any situation.

You can't change the past. But with God's help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.