My eyes are my greatest sin.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

Pity womankind, but never a woman.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.

Potential means nothing unless you’re willing to do something with it.

Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

It’s not lost on me that I’m so busy recording life, I don’t have time to really live it.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.