One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

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.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering