Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

The Lord is supreme.The Lord is strong.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.