If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Their story, yours, mine - it's what we all carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

We tell each other stories in order to live.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

we shared a common interest in how the past effects people — some let it decide who they are, while others make it part of what they will do.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them and pass them on, and the giving only makes you feel better. The others are just words on a page.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Everybody has their story to tell.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.