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

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.