What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

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.

...food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.

I’m a lot like you, and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say, and it’s sad to see.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

As we’re bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

The problem is, we have leaders and negotiators that don't realize we have the power. And they're essentially incompetent. And we would be able to straighten out that thing.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

Strategy is a system of expedients.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.