Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

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.

Always remember the primary purpose of your life is living in tune with your energy pattern, find the true expression for the energy and go with the flow!

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

The romance of religion isn't nearly as beautiful as the reality of Christ.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.