An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.