The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote - and I!

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.

Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.

When someone loves you, you are living in the most beautiful place in the earth, in the beauty of his or her mind. So enjoy it, even if it lasts for a moment.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them.

I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.