He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

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.

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.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

To add to truth distracts from it.

'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

An ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.