Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of 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.

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.

I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak on their behalf ensuring their well-being and lives are respected and protected.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.