There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

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.

Once I had her hand, I never wanted to let go of her.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.

I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!