“But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.”

“We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.”

“All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.”

“I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.”

“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”

“Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.”