The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

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.

Divine self is rooted in love.

I don’t care about his quest for redemption. I don’t want him anywhere near Quinn, ” Alaric snarled. “I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we adjourn this meeting.”

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Romance was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes.

I don't think there's a hobby that I haven't tried on.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

Imyself haveheard averygood jest, and havescornedto seem to have so sillya wit as to understand it.

A star on earth - a star in heaven.

The deepest mystery comes not when we don't know somebody well, but when we do.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.