The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.