You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

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.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems.

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.

If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Fans are my favourite thing in the world

The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.