No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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.

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you but by the light that shines within.

the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

In solitude when we are least alone.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

Nerdighters make me believe in America again.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.