I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

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.

Walk in the way of light.

If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

A gold cage is still a cage.-King David IOh, go cry in a bag of money.-Queen Christina

I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party.

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.