Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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 always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.

J'accuse toute violence en l'education d'une ame tendre, qu'on dresse pour l'honneur, et la liberté.

Your life should reflect your heart.

You only encounter problems that You can handle!!!!

Follow your dreams. Just make sure to have fun too.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

But I was thinking of a way To feed oneself on batter, And so go on from day to day Getting a little fatter.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.