People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility, " she murmured.

The Spirit teaches us how to participate with God in the restoration of all things

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.