The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Most things get steadily worse.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

Come now. let us reason together.

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.