Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

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.

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society.

Praying is a paved path.

There is a lot of relief for daters who are serious about wanting to be in a relationship. This comes in the form of what appears to be dramatic changes like speed dating and Internet dating.

I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

You never win any games you don't play.

Love perseveres. It's men who change.

It's great that the story [Allied] is set in the '40s because the '40s feel to it is completely appropriate.