“How can everyone help bring peace to the world? By not being ashamed of who they are and by acting according to their heart's desires. And by telling their stories.”

“Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord.”

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.”

“It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing a book about it.”

“Anyone who tells a story speaks a world into being.”