Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Some people love money and get into politics. If they love money so much, they should get into commerce, industry, or do whatever they want - it's no sin. But politics is for serving the people.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

If I asked people to live as I live, they would kill me.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

My art became very public.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.