Carlos Castenada's Quotes

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

I think the age of 27 to 28 is ideal for the Salvadoran player to play qualifiers. That's why we've brought players who are between 23 and 24. I think in three years, they'll be well-armed to play qualifiers.

You don't buy experience at the pharmacy. You acquire it through games over time. Every player must go through that, but when the federation hired me, they told me they wanted new players and young players who will prepare for the future.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type.

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.