If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
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.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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?
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.