Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.