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

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

Nothing worthwhile is easy.

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.

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.

How people treat you is their karma

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment.

Don't give up too early because everyone is ahead of you and you are far behind them. Set a standard for yourself and keep beating that standard regularly!

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.