To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

I don't pitch for contracts.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Always help those who are being persecuted.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.