If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

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.

Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.