Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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.

To see yourself and others in the darkness, be the light of courage and enlighten them.

You can use your experience and success in your organisation to start your own business

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.