...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

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.

God knows you very well

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves

There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only patriots and traitors.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

A guy like myself wants to make a play and be the difference, but the thing is I have to keep saying to myself to just do what I can.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.