The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

To change masters is not to be free.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

He hadn’t struck her as particularly religious unless she counted the number of times he’d called out to Jesus when he’d been deep inside her.

Reading is like diving into an ocean of an alternate world, away from your real world, where in spite of going though the pain and pleasure of the characters, you remain a witness, unscathed.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.