perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

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.

The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

When the whole world is watch­ing you, they cre­ate sto­ries and give you labels that have noth­ing to do with you. It's almost impos­si­ble for you not to explode!

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.