It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

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.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

You give me the duty to write about love

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.

America is the land of freedom and that’s the way I enjoy living.

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church.

God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.