I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction.

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

You kill, it's part of your world as a bullfighter, it's a natural part of your world, and then you leave that world and it becomes unnatural.

Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.

Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.

I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

If you fear something, walk into it.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.

A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.

God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it

Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.

When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.