Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

[...] each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

My message is that God is a good God.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

During the last campaign I knew what was happening. You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy. No more. No more.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.