This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

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

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

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.

You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

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

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it