A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Real change isn't achieved as the result of white knuckling and hoping for the best. It requires changing your heart.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Thanks, but that's not going to fix anything. It's like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

Going to a charity tea party and thinking that you've done your bit toward putting an end to social inequity in the world.

Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.

I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.