“An educated person will listen to a story before he reacts... But a well-educated person knows how to listen to both sides of a story before he reacts.”

“Before you act, listen. Before you react, think.Before you spend, earn.Before you criticize, wait.Before you pray, forgive.Before you quit, try.”

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”

“listen, i appreciate the story. i get that he's a goody guy. but these audits are random. it's not personal. see, that's where you're wrong, the man said. everything you do in life is personal. ”

“And, of course, people are only interested in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen. And I here make a rule- a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting- only the deeply personal and familiar.”