Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

May we understand that joy is not a sin, sacrifice is not a virtue.

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

The Road to Santiago is the road of ordinary people.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.