Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

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.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Some questions are more complicated than their answers could be.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

Started from the chair hop now we here.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.