Nothing worthwhile is easy.

Stories make it possible for us to be human.

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.

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.

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.