I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tan...
To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd t...
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewrit...
If our story isn’t serving us, negatively impacts our families, our communities, or our organizations, we might just have to find a way to “StoryJack” the story, transforming it, and creating a new story that we resonate with so that we can “...
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not m...
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
It’s supernatural, hard to explain it any further.
The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!
Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.
True love is tested when betrayed.
Every true artist is at war with the world.
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy
Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.
Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur' [A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
True friends celebrate your success and share your grief!
People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
The only true measure of courage is perseverance under pressure.
