The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply “Insert Story Here.

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

We always been rich, Lydia. We just ain't had much money.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

How do you fight someone if you can't hit them?

We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

Sometimes you succeed.... and other times you learn.

The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?