The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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.

If your brother can't 'old 'is own against a bunch of orphans, 'e'd best leave off playing 'azard altogether!

Ecological awareness expands the context of life

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

It's not about what you have, it's what people think you have.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

Help yourself by helping others.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.