The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

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.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

Remember the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.