Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

If you want to do something in your life, share everything but never your ideas.

We are all qualified to fellowship with God no matter our situation or condition

Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

Blind eyes cannot read.

What the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most.

I prefer to go to the little towns now, because in little towns people are kind. I like going to Tepotzlán.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.