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.

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.

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

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.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?

It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863...