I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.

Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is a misfortune " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune."

Leaders goal: Avoid building around only ONE person's ministry gifting. Longevity is in a team, not an individual!

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.