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.

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.

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.

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack...He's the Maytag guy.

Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.