Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

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.

Sometimes change isn't what we want, but it might be what we need. Not everything is meant to last forever.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

It may be more important in the mathematics class how you teach than what you teach.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

It sends out a very clear message: "Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.