On Thanksgiving Day, during our family gathering, we pray you to have mercy on Antonio Pontón …

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. - Eighth Amendment, United States Constitution

What to do now, Father? I am going to die like a killer, and I do not even remember killing.”“You can pray, my son. You are in the hands of God now, ” said the good priest.

What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

Pardon me for this resolution … I know that this will be a disgrace that I bring to my people, but I cannot help it. Love is the blame for it. I go in peace ... pray for me ... good-bye all.

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!

Manuel acquired as much land as he could afford and refused to sell it to anyone, even if he was not planting anything on it. “La tierra no se acaba” (“the land does not perish”), he often said.

Antonio’s will was cursed. Not once, but twice.

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Only disciplined people become free, but their discipline is not obedience to others: their discipline is obedience to their own inner voice. And they are ready to risk anything for it.

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.