Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

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.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.