When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

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.

Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.

There was nothing special with the way he looked at her but her heart raced with even glance.

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

I'm a thinker not a talker.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops...

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

He does not weep who does not see.