The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

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 need to think about the month, you need to plan the day, you need to take your elephant and divide into pieces and eat a slice a day

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

I believe "If you're "managing" people rather than leading them and tracking time rather than results, you've already lost. Give it up."I do not manage people, I lead them

Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.