We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

Experiment is the sole source of truth.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.