As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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.
Sunlight is painting.
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
A person preaches well that lives well.
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Fashion changes, but style endures.
What is to give light must endure burning.