Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.

No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria.

I've learned you can make a mistake and the whole world doesn't end. I had to learn to allow myself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.