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.

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.

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.

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.

Your failures contain key to your success and your destination

I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me.

The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed, but he's kinda stuck up or he's kinda this or he's kinda that.'

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.