In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

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.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

You have to have courage to begin anything. Without courage and enthusiasm, there is nothing.

Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.