Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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.

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

To love is to undress our names.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

A library is infinity under a roof.

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.