Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

The decisions and problems of Uruguay will be resolved by Uruguayans.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

I'm very lucky about my family, because they're just a really solid family. I owe everything to them.

You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.