Where there's property, there's theft.

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 are no crash courses on ‘enlightenment’, you only crash in a course like that.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship

I have so much to accomplish today that I must meditate for two hours instead of one.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.