I want. I need. I ache. I burn. Burn with me." Ellysetta to Rain in Lord of the Fading Lands.

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 flexibility we gain in asana is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life’s problems and challenges.

When you borrow a man's car, always return it with a tank of gas.

The mind creates with thoughts and logic, but it sees with light. The heart creates with the emotions and feelings and dreaming, but it sees with darkness.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

The soldier's heart, the soldier's spirit, the soldier's soul, are everything.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

You will not be a chip the richer.

Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.