There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

Optimism requires confidence, and confidence is built on trust. And trust, as we know, flows in both directions.