Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.