Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

Let the gladness of your soul blossom.

I study people by using electronics like proxy.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he