Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

I love life with its twists and turns.

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such.

Be happy. Think, "O Lord, You are my everything. You are my goal. You are my breath." Do not think, "This is mine, that is mine." Instead think, "All is You. All is Yours."

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.