To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

To love is to undress our names.

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.