If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

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 turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.But only when no one was watching.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

I find humming is very useful.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.