A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

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.

I play with the fire of my own truth, " she told me, "I will burn for the things I love.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.

Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Pardew has got previous for this kind of thing - but that was a one-off.

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.