What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.
A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.
If your shirt isn't tucked into your pants, then your pants are tucked into your shirt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
Always maintain the attitude of a student. If you think you've done learning, bitterness sets in, but if you have more to achieve every day, in any arena, that makes each morning's awakening full of potential and cheery portent.
Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.
Technically, we're all half centaur.
Things that can't go on forever, won't. Debts that can't be paid, won't be.
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the protagonist of an epic novel, with the outcome predetermined and chapter after chapter of edifying, traumatic, and exhilarating events to be suffered through. Since the end is known in advance, one must try to experience as much as possible in the brief time allotted. Writing is a way of ensuring that you pay enough attention along the way to understand what you see.
My friends back in Barcelona called me by that name (Picasso). It was stranger, more resonant, than "Ruiz. " And those are probably the reasons I adopted it. Do you know what appealed to me about that name? Well, it was undoubtedly the double s, which is fairly unusual in Spain.
No one can separate themselves from one's social group and remain healthy, because the very structure of personality is dependent on the community.