When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.

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.

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.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Hey, Sunshine, your friend’s awake. What’s his name? (Starla) I don’t know, Starla. I didn’t ask. (Sunshine) You look like a Steve. Are you hungry, Steve? (Starla)