"Apart from a mark on my palm I had managed to avoid being discovered. It may simply have been that I had grown tired …"

"A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. W…"

"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be…"

"In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because…"

"In that land of beginnings spirits mingled with the unborn. We could assume numerous forms. Many of us were birds. We…"

"You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river …"

""How many times had I come and gone through the dreaded gateway? How many times had I been born and died young? And h…"

"Learn to drink, my son. A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this diffi…"

"If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom."