The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you

To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.

The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.

real beauty is so deep you have to move into darkness to understand it.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Whatever is supposed to make you rich is well within your reach

God—the Bible’s Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.