I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Love is a great beautifier.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time’s chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.