A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'