Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

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.

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

What anger wants, it buys at the price of soul.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.