Miguel Quotes

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Too much sanity may be madness!

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

A lot of people forget that R&B put hip-hop on, R&B put rock on.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.'

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

It is good to live and learn.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Be impeccable with your words

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Also, go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Every dog has his day.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.

If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We are having fun, we don't get bored, we don't have frustrations.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

We only see what we want to see, and hear what we want to hear

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.