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

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.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

From time to time, one must release the grime built up inside them to to free their emotions like the ocean.

Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.

Imagination took the reins and Reason slow-paced though surefooted was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

Life is with such all beer and skittles. They are not difficult to please About their victuals.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?

You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?