Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes we meet folks who appear rather plain, yet when they speak from a heart of service, love, compassion, and wisdom, they instantly become respected favorites.

The breath of being is all that matters in this moment.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

I knew people want most what they pretend to hate, that it takes courage to say what you really want.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self.

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.