You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

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.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn't understand the concept of people talking over music.

When in doubt, win the trick.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

Orangutans look straight into your soul.