Greed puts out the sun.

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.

Your thoughts and actions becomes your world.

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

If we can not love the person whom we see, how can we love God whom we can not see?

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.