Memory is a great betrayer.

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.

The nature of the kingdom must make you a God-carrier

Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.

I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

Good design means as little design as possible.

I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.