Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.