You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

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.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.

I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'