No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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.

Freedom lies in being bold.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

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

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.