The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

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.

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

We put boogers on our fingers, then shake your hand.

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.