It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

I would rather die on my feet than continue living on my knees.

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!

Envy is littleness of soul.