...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

Not everything you meet twice is the truth. Not everything you hear twice is the fact, and not everything you ponder over and over can help you!

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.