What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?