Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

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

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Humility is attentive patience.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.