The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.