There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.