Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

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

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

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.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.