Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

The love in your heart is greater than all the stars the sky could even hope to have. Hold onto that love, and it will take you higher than the stars themselves.

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice

I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.