It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our ….

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion..

What matters most is that we learn from living..

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself..

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents..

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible..

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real demo….

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable..

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutalit….

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself..

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our e….

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way..

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at ….

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so..

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began t….

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common..

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants..

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact..

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools..

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer..

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that..