We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.

I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.