The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

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.

A tormented mind wants to forget, what a broken heart will always remember.

One day you will just wake up and you will do not want to remember that it was a real fact, what has happened before you fell asleep.

A woman will always be insecure if she attaches her identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention she gets.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

There is also a strong following among the urbanites on the East Coast when it comes to martial arts films.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.