Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

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.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.

I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

Obamacare is destroying our businesses, our small business and our big businesses.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.