The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

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.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

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

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Sunlight is painting.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.