The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

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.

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I will preach with my brush.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let’s dig deep.'

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.