Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

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.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

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.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Give up trying to make me give up

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

It ain't over 'til it's over.