... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

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.

The mentality of a successful relationship: detached and dedicated.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves.

All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.