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.

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.

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.

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

When you surround yourself with wonderful, productive people, you become enhanced. Your level of happiness increases, which is your success.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

Mindfulness removes the emotional fogs of negative thoughts with the light of awareness.

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.