I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

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.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

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

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

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.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.