Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

We live in stories the way fish live in water.

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears.

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.

Catching up with the end result is never final, until it is, upon death.

Fear and doubt do not kill courage and faith

Good intentions but bad results

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

It takes a lot to still believe in people.

'I am insecure' means: I can't cope on my own. The odds are overwhelming. I can't resist them on my own. I need us to join forces, stand shoulder to shoulder, march hand in hand.