“As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.”

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”

“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.”

“...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”

“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.”

“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.”

“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.”