As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

I have always been afraid of banks.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The only place I want to travel to is the United States Of America from 2008 to 2016. Anywhere else is a horribly dangerous time for women and minorities.

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.