We're not in people's faces, but I guess we're kind of in people's ears.

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.

Reflection on the infinite seems to call, almost by definition, for infinite reflection.

Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.

The most difficult place in the world to get a clear and open perspective of the country as a whole is Washington.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Protests [against Donald Trump] four nights running.Thousands marching across the country.

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

Nigeria has its problems, nobody denies that, but there is a surge of spiritual, I would say, Christian dynamics that are awesome.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.