Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.