A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

One sweet note is but an ounce of pain.

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

The process of the body changing and making a whole human fascinates me.

You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.