New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

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.

In every step you take, keep your feet firmly on the ground.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.