If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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.
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.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.
If you follow every dream, you might get lost.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.