My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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.

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

...when women gain control over spending, less family money is devoted to instant gratification and more for education and starting small businesses.

Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

I always think it's better to take a smaller role in a great film rather than a leading role in something that you don't have complete faith in.

God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.

If I just go out and play, the rest will take care of itself. That's what my parents taught me. They haven't been wrong yet.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.