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.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.