I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Common sense is not so common.

Boards don't hit back.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Once you label me you negate me.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.