1.
Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.
Carlos Castaneda
Egotism necessitates devoting the majority of one's time affronted by something or someone.
2.
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.
Carlos Castaneda
3.
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus
Carlos Castaneda
4.
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.
Carlos Castaneda
5.
When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
Carlos Castaneda
6.
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
Carlos Castaneda
7.
When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.
Elizabeth Pena
8.
I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.
Clarence Thomas
9.
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
Charles S. Dutton
10.
Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute.
Michelle Rodriguez
11.
A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.
Tristan Bernard
12.
Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?
Fay Wray
13.
Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.
Carlos Castaneda
14.
I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.
Jacques Lipchitz
15.
Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
Pablo Picasso
16.
Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
Mason Cooley
18.
I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.
Arielle Dombasle
19.
Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition.
Frederick Lenz
20.
Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.
Rachel Caine
21.
A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.
Frederick Lenz
22.
I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.
Ben Hecht
23.
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.
Frederick Lenz