What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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.

Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Your destiny provides you with answers to the questions concerning you overcoming different obstacles, hassles and giving you a vision of your future

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.