All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.