Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

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.

...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

I was inbred into the game by my father

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

To harm another is to harm oneself

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

The people always support me. If they come to see my show, they never forget me. They are very proud of me.