These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

Preston doesn't do well with trouble. But that's why I'm here. That's why my name is Mommy.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

As a child I had terrible asthma.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.