Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of 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.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

A soul gives power to the mind

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

As a leader, you build trust when you give yourself 100%, so that people understand with your every action, you stand for them.

Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.

There's a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.