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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

We engineered activity out of our lives in the name of convenience. We created foods that put fried, fatty, sweet, and salty ahead of fresh, natural, and healthy. We quickly sacrifice sleep to work longer hours in pursuit of the American Dream. Even when we do these things with good intentions, they have life-threatening consequences.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.