To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

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.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

We artists allow others to see through our windows.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.