If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Do not be wise your own eyes. Seek the ways of God.

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

The brutalities of wolves are not for enjoyment and pleasure

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.