The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

In my culture we just say f**k off.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.