Juan Quotes

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

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.

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I. Don Juan Matus

It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

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.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

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.

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

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.

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.

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.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

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.

Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

I married someone 30 years older than me, a doctor, a playboy who had a terrible Don Juan reputation.

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.

Here's a tip...If you leave a girl crying you're probably not doing your Don Juan routine right, asshole.

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.

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.

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.