God grants victory to perseverance.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

I love story songs because I've always loved books.

I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky.

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.