I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write.

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.

Be first the master of yourself

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then?

You might be a redneck if your dogs name is Miller Light

Kindness comes with no price.