"I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before."

“In Christ there is no East nor West.”

“Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.”

“There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.”

“Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.”

“Most fears are not even based on our current reality. They are the product of imagined fears conjured up in our minds - the product of our own fantasies.”

Source : "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

“Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.”

“Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.”

“The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!”