If God decides to elevate you, who out there would dare to downgrade you?

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Talk to people, not above them.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.