It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

Letting you go was a mistake.but now i have to wait for you rest of my life cause I can not afford to repeat my mistake

Sometimes, we only truly find ourselves when we have lost ourselves first.

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.