Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.