"…my life, after all, is about Stories…My career, my mission in life, is to divine the stories waiting in my heart, and put them on paper, and to divine the stories of other people, to empower and equip them with the tools to write, and live, their own story…[I am honored to] assist in the incredible act of another person's birthing a new story in which they succeed, instead of fail, and more importantly, in which her or his victory is not at the cost of another's."

-Exerpted from Living Omily: "A Manifesto of Sorts" 1/20/12