One can say that the nagual accounts for creativity. The nagual is the only part of us that can create.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Every day I wake up and decide: today I'm going to love my life.

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.