To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.

The best is yet to come and won't that be fine.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.

I actually love actors.

Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.

All your personalities are absolute cover-ups, hiding your individuality.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself