If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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.

We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

I don't think a celebrity endorsement gets you a vote, but it opens the door for you to hear the appeal of the candidate.

Want is the mistress of invention

See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.