The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

Ivan had contrived somehow in the dark of night to replace every watermelon in the watermelon patch with a gravestone, and every gravestone in the engraver's lot with a watermelon

Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.