Never look down on someone because they offering a gift which is small in size

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Why should I care?’ – The one who says this is the greatest offender of nature.

I'm such a strong human being. I amaze myself even. If only you knew what I've been up against, you'd want my autograph. I'm a real life superhero.

The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

I spend a lot of time looking up.

You will be an attraction for the people of this village, ” Señor Castillo

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.