I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

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.

Suffering belongs to no language.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

If writing and publishing a book is like giving birth to a child, then book marketing is like rearing it.

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.