There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

People can only be free if they are truly educated.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

To change masters is not to be free.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.

Amor cuerdo, no es amor. (Sane love, is not love)

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.

It is peculiar but a fact nevertheless, that the gamblers in chess have enthusiastic followers.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'

Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn’t…Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.