Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

There is a difference between looking all right in a shirt and taking the shirt off. The older that us dudes get, the more the paunch has to be worked on. It's hard.