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.

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

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

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.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.