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“The whole idea behind it is that the one true democracy we have is storytelling. It goes across borders, boundaries, genders, rich, poor— everything has a story to tell.”

 “It was so important to him,” Johnny said afterward. “And now it was kind of my story, too. So it was really important to me to get it right.”

“The children almost broken by this world become the adults most likely to change it.”

“You have created something truly transformative.”

“Truth is not something that is just revealed, it is also created.”

“This method is a stay against abstraction: By using our words, our very breath, to tell each other’s stories, we not only acknowledge but honor our common humanity.”

“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”

“I am a transformed human being…these young people have given me hope.”

“It was a fairly remarkable thing to watch, the care each student took with the story that had been entrusted to her or him.”

“Narrative 4 allowed me to understand in a much deeper way the story I had been carrying inside me for twenty-five years. In the listening, I received my own story from the outside-in through the empathetic voice of another. It was no longer my story but a shared story.”

“Storytelling is a mirror into our shared humanity.”

“Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.”

“This is a deceptively simple yet extraordinarily powerful tool to build empathy and close bonds between individuals.”

“Gives me — as someone who has had a hard time finding reasons to be optimistic about the future in the Middle East — a glimmer of hope.” 

“One of the most profound experiences of my life.” 

“By listening to each others’ stories…we can break down the walls that separate us into different cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, classes, and nationalities.”

“The most direct application of imagination for good that I’ve ever seen”

“Every story has a place, even the stories we don’t like.”

“When you receive a story and recite your own, you feel like you gave part of yourself away, but also got a part of someone else too.”

“Before I did a story exchange I felt like I was in a room full of strangers — some of them acquaintances, a few of them friends. After the exchange I felt as though I truly knew — and deeply loved — everyone in the room.”