“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.”
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
“What is a man but the sum of his memories? We are the stories we live! The tales we tell ourselves!”
“We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...”
“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”
“It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.”