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.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

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