“Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Barcelona is always a club that, at the beginning of the season, wants to win everything. I will try my best to do that with them and I’m sure I will help as much as I can.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

I’m still young and everyday I want to learn more. I feel I am beginning to find myself.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.

For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.