I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.