Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

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.

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it's possible to actually reach success doing movies.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation.

The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

I'm totally sick of hotels. I'm totally sick of room service. I'm totally sick of how can I help you ma'am? I just want to go home and wash some dishes, play with my cat, watch some TV.