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 Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
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.