Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

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.

Courage is important but it shouldn’t be used in making impulsive decisions or taking uncalculated actions.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

That which you seek, is causing you to seek.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

I want to take IBM back to its roots.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

If we lose our morality, we will lose our country. It will happen.

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.