I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

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.

You can't argue with Results, stop talking and Prove with Results

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

We're going to fight for every vote in every state. We're going to make a real difference in people's lives.

Let no act be done without purpose.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

I have always been thinking about the sounds and shades and aromas of words - fitting them together or disrupting their customary march - more or less every second of my life, waking and sleeping.

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.