Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding.

Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.

We're going to let foreign corporations and their CEO's decide the outcomes of the [presidential elections] you just can't do this.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine