Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

The deepest comfort comes from the divine self.

When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

I believe in style, not fashion.

An oyster may be crossed in love.