As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

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.

Violence begins with the fork.

It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

No business, no movement, no activity on the part of man or a group of men can become any greater than the thinking minds and consciousness of the people who are back of the movement.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.

The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.