“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn’t be so adored in the slightest.

The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

I have a lot of admiration for people who’ve been in relationships a long time, married for years.

The world is conditioned to admire flowers. Keep watering your roots.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.