Outside, he had a sudden feeling that at moments there was too much light for human eyes. It caused men to feel weak and befuddled.

We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.

Someday men will learn to irrigate and spread fertilizer instead of praying for fertility.

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

Pity womankind, but never a woman.

My eyes are my greatest sin.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

And the air--I don't know how to describe it exactly--it had that strange cool spring feeling in it, that feeling as if you remember something wonderful but you're not quite sure what it is.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

The end crowneth the work.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

Humility is the light of understanding.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.