Church can’t be a place where we feel like a visitor, or somewhere we’re afraid to allow others to see our messes. It’s got to feel like home.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

Non-fiction can distort

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.

Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

You are one of a kind, one in a billion, an incredible unique individual. The problem is, so is everybody else.

Your character is slowly built and quickly eroded. You're definitely influenced whatever you are immersed in and whatever you're around and what you're a part of.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.