I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Do not lose heart.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

The word of Sin is Restriction

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a moment to accept with silent dignity.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.