Here's one more from my limited experience with all 3 fields: A writer creates life; a poet creates magic from life; a philosopher tries to understand life.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Progress of mankind is the decadence of humanity.

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

Life is the inside of a box, and we can't open it.

Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

I've found that people with flexible ears are the least rigid in life. Best way to find yourself a perfect partner may be as easy as squeezing their ears.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Love rekindles lose hope

Take a searching inventory of your speech, habits, behaviors, appearance, hobbies, preferences, talents, and products. The key is what makes you distinct and unlike others.

I really love Norah Jones.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Joy is the effect which comes when we use our powers.