Be the author, not the reader, of your own life.

As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

A vision inspires, aligns, and directs. it says to other people, "here is what I am up to, come and play in my sandbox!

A life is a terrible thing to waste. Reach your potential. Thrive.

Feeling entitled is the opposite of feeling grateful. Gratitude opens the heart, entitlement closes it.

Life is full of unexpected. The grace of God is available to everyone to stand the test of time.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

You have your children and it's hard to even hold it in - emotionally.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

What are you, a baby? Jeez, if you’re going to kill humans, the least you could do is learn to die with some dignity. (Wulf)

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.