The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

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 admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time.

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.