Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a three-week trip, and I ended up staying two months.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Caring is not bossing somebody around

It all came apart once you started caring for something outside yourself.

A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Lord, I'm available to be your ambassador and if there is someone you would like me to speak with today you can bring that person across my path.