Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note and gravity disappears.

The secret of life is to validate your existence.

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.