What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.