Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of their meaning if they are considered separately.

Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.

I'm a sucker for a guy with a big organ.

Godliness is practical religion.

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.