notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

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.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

She'd thought there was no greater connection than destiny decreeing them joined. But there was - the choice they'd made to love each other.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

In each of [my] actions, I'm keeping my promises to the American people. These are campaign promises.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

He leaned back for a moment to tug her shirt down her arms, with the same wicked, lovley smile that had first stolen her breath years ago.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.