The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

Before you live, love. Before you expire, inspire. Let your love be an inspiration to someone to also love another and together we build up a happy world!

I feel alive when you kiss me.

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.

Movies can be sexy or sexual without showing things. It is almost a deal breaker.