Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

The day of individual happiness has passed

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

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

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

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.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

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.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.