It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

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.

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.

My main concern is with the world order

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I'm a terrible dancer.

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.