The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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.

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.

Baseball lasts as long as it takes. Like life, like love, baseball exists in real time.

I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

I am crazy but I found a way to steer it into ways I think are very productive.

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!

A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie.