There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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 the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!

We have teeth and we have tailsWe have tails we have eyesWe were here before you fellWe will be here when you rise.

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

You'll know what kind of bird I am when I fly over you.

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is rational.