Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.

The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.