Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

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 Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it

Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?

As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.