A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

To love is to undress our names.

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

Kevin Cornell and I have worked together a bunch.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.