If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

The principle of literature is devotion to the particulars of life.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

One of the greatest pleasures I get from my measly professional career is confusing people.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.

Every season of life has its compensations.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?