This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

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.

Focus on what God can do through you.

Peaceful is he who is living in the moment, but not in the past nor in the future.

Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.

people who says they are running out of time, I think they don't know how to manage tasks/work and to prioritize it.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.

Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!