As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

I thought i had been educated well enough until i left college.

Murder decorated with a ribbon is still murder.

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

There's no smoking section in heaven.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.