Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

I used to say why save money if I'll die tomorrow, I haven’t died yet and I have nothing to survive on

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Age is reforming our bodies to better roll with the punches!