A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Ball tempering is common in Cricket. Rigging is common in Elections. Whats the big deal? — Najumi Sethi

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

The task of the church is twofold: to spread Christianity throughout the world and to make sure that the Christianity she spreads is the pure New Testament kind.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

I'm not a great pregnant woman.

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.