Introspection is a devouring monster.

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.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Everything man needs is in the world.

Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.

Nothing is always absolutely so

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.