Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

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.

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.

Now you're being ridiculous. If your mom changed into a carrot, I'd think she'd change back before someone ate her, werewolf or not.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.