I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whos...

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, st...

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically stealing someone's image in order to make money for themselves... They wait at the end of my street in their...

Money can't buy poverty.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.