Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

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 Lord is the Lord of my life. He gives me hope.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Chess is the art of analysis.

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!