When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

It will be a great day in this world when nobody wants anything because everyone has given and there is nothing left to take.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

I played for Almendares in Cuba. Guess who was trying out for the team? Castro. Fidel Castro, as a pitcher. He could throw pretty hard, but he was wild. He didn't have any control.

I'm not a very dark person.

I saw an awful lot of actresses, and some of them, you thought should be hospitalized. [They] should certainly eat a hamburger, for godsake.

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!