Quotes

If intuition is the sixth sense and common sense is the seventh, let imagination be the eighth. And let’s use it.

If hope is the last thing to be lost, the penultimate thing is the desire to have it.

Suddenly, I go back and I do not remember who I heard it from several times, but his words were engraved on me: common sense has to do with knowing how to be ourselves, with wanting to listen to each other and wanting to share knowledge.

Some people have the idea that common sense is ambiguous, mediocre, undefined or uncompromising. But no. Common sense is to live in accordance with the beauty of judgment. It is the art of consciousness.

Among the challenging lines of a good book is stored the most powerful fuel: that of imagination. Books are a source and transmitter of ideas.

To travel is to discover myself, by rediscovering unthinkable treasures. It is to walk wide open with the spirit at its point to receive everything and, before the wonders that are offered to me, to keep respectful silence and think in order to know how to discern and learn to share.

With better parties, there is more of the best of politics and with it, more democracy.

The State must be the guarantor of your happiness, your individuality, of your freedom to be, do and have what you want to be, do and have.

The State at my service and not the other way around. That is why I pay taxes. That is why I give my vote.

I am wary of gratuities. Nothing is for free. Everything must be earned with effort, intelligence and discipline. The manual of good manners may call these virtues, but I see them as weapons of survival. The best thing that life can give you, the only thing that should be inalienable to you, is to have the same opportunities as others. And from there on, your own nails.