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.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Thought is free.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

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

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.