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.

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.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together.

God’s love is God’s attention.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. Republicans won in a landslide.

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

Commit yourself to taking enough risks that you will fail some of the time. If you're not failing, we're not doing something sufficiently difficult or creative.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.