In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

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 do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup.

Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.

...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...

Envy, is Pride's greatest Fear.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.