Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

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.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

We have this one life, let's enjoy it, let's live it to the full and don't get so worked up about don't identify yourself so passionately with this business called religion.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.