When you possess light within, you see it externally.

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.

Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.

It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us.

This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

There are moments when you can only stand and stare, watching the world forget you as you remove yourself from it - when you overcome it and cease to exist as the person you were.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

Water is more precious than oil. Both are more precious than music. Music won't heat a house or help a plant to grow.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.