I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.