We live in stories the way fish live in water.

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.

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

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.

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.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

It's not always easy, but it's usually simple.

The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.

Nothing is so essential as dignity. Time will reveal who has it and wi has it not." -Beatrix Whittaker

Increase calls for review, check-up, control, and analysis.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.

Joy and sadness come by turns.