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?

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Dare to risk public criticism.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Once you label me you negate me.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

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

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

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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.