Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

In rural Spain, at least, it is far better to arrive than to travel, however hopefully.

All about my riches/ My name should be Richard

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.

I want to win football games.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.