The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

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.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Give importance to those peoplewho give importance to you.

If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain!

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

Half of my employees are women.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.