My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.