Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

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.

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

life is unfair, if you are weak, your out

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.