“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

Remember, nothing succeeds without toil.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.

You should not consider a man’s age but his acts.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera’s men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.