What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

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.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

You get a checklist, and then you just sort of ride herd on it. It's just a few items on a single sheet of paper.

A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.