With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

Those Genes Could Have Been Mine

There is only one question: / how to love this world.