To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

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.

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.

Freedom has its risks.

I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.