They can send death at once, but life is slower.

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.

And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world.

The purpose of labor is to learn; when you know it, the labor is over.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

From adult diapers to bedpans? Move over, Elvis, I’m the afterlife of the party!