Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

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.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.