Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

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.

We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy.

...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting.

I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.