You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Genius is sorrow's child.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

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.

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.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

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

As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.