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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

Learning means change.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

I love modeling but also see it as a platform for the million other things I want to achieve and create in life.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.

Clay Cook is a first class musician. Tender tormented genius here in 'North Star'. I will kill him if he leaves my band and he knows it. Great record.