Like the poet Po Chüyi, the Chinese scholar "utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.

I came here to swallow my pride, admit I was wrong, and beg you to come back to work for me again. But then I figured I'd take a moral shortcut and write you a check.

My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

I think....living in such a hard situation when there are terrorists and they slaughter people every night is still hard -- is still a threat. So it's a better idea to speak out for your rights and then die...we will speak out for our rights. This is what we can do, and we tried our best.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity, who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity, who was able to move others.

Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.

When we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

I think [if you] consume mainstream pop culture and don’t activate a search for any other niche outlets then you can fall into this feeling that you are inferior.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

I think that I have influenced several generations of performers in Mexico. I’m proud of that because it isn’t easy in these scenes. But then it is easy because it’s what you love to do, and it’s your passion. Even in your down times, you are always accompanied by your music.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

A world of grief and pain
Oh God, but flowers bloom, even then.

It is common that once presidents start governing then a lot more substance comes out.

Morris: I'll never speak to you again until the day I die!
Gary: Well, we can have a nice little chat then, can't we?