His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

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.

Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care.

If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.