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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

A ship will never sink if God is on it.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I'm interested in acting because I'm interested in exploring humanity, and we're all nuts, we're all damaged, and we're all gorgeous, so anything less than that is dishonest to me.

But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.

I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Write what you love and love what you write.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get