It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.