We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

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.

As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

Religion's voice has been taken away. It was taken away by Lyndon Johnson in the 1970s because of a dispute he had, I think, with the church. And this was his way of silencing the church.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.

Never talking to strangers. Saying nasty things about the neighbors.