Love is the true condition of human life.

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.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

It is only individual great forces, which must be pulled together, in our common vision of combating the climate change.

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

To think you can creates the force that can.

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.