I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

To be honorable, you have to make sacrifices for others.

Women who got married got screwed.

Love the moment for its simplicity, it may give or take nothing from you, but in the blinking of an eye it will have change so many things forever.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

If you have the strength to whine, you have the strength to do something about it.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

You are treasure beyond any price.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.