The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

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.

Friends are a wonderful thing. They won't make you feel like a nothing.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Thus we live, forever taking leave.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.