To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

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.

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

I care about this crazy little planet and I would love to make a difference.

Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.

Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.