To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

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.

There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!

Sense howEven the smooth stones acheWith stories of their ownIn the shuddering light of day.

It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today’s hard times

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I'm not aware of being overweight.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

May be refined, and join the angelic train.