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.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Be that self which one truly is.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
