Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.