What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

They can’t denied who I am.

We have to believe that the thought we have is piecing together for us the thing we are thinking of and is actually carrying it closer and closer to us!

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

I'm a huge Sissy Spacek fan.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.