“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.”

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

I don’t believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

All one great big lie.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

…when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.