Carlos Santana

Surrender your whole being to a note and gravity disappears.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.