I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

Nothing is so weakening as regret.

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?