Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

...Obyann, you're talking about the Landemere-Ramaldah border dispute of 1416. Damn it, man, that was in the time of our grandfathers.

My son's taking drum lessons, and my daughter's taking piano lessons. One day they're going to start a band.

[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.