The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

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.

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

if you cannot ponder to wonder, you will always wonder to ponder

Respect fails before love

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.