Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned

From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

I remember watching Ring of Honor as a fan, going to shows in Philadelphia and New York, and I loved the guys. I thought these are some of the best wrestlers in the world, if not THE best.

It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

No one goes to the toilet in novels. You'd think none of us had bladders.

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.

I have always loved a window, especially an open one.