The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.