Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

It’s stupid, but it’s human, and that’s how it is.

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.

in exceptional circumstances — exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

I suddenly asked my master Caeiro, “Are you at peace with yourself?” and he answered, “No, I’m at peace.” It was like the voice of the earth, which is everything and no one.

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

Thought is the only treasure that God sets outside all power and keeps to serve as a secret link among the unhappy.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!