One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

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.

Time will take everything away from life, so why are we not giving something away with time?

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter.

You try too hard. Winners forget they're in a race. They just love to run.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

Hollywood is the most superficial thing you could possibly be a part of and if I weren't attractive, I wouldn't be working at all.