My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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.

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

I see a vision, its the vision of tomorrow, no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.

We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.

I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.

There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind.