To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

What is to give light must endure burning.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

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

A lie never lives to be old.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

A jug fills drop by drop.