The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. – Anthony De Mello