The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

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.

Peace that follows battle is a futile peace. It is time to count dead and to assess which side stands closer to the win.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

If the dark side wants you, it will come to you regardless of what you try to do to avoid it

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.