The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Think of these books as doors. Open them and let their ideas stir your mind. Study them and they become weapons.

She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.

A message from a flower: "Do not pick me. I want to live".

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.

I have control of my own style.

Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.