Journalist Quotes

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, w

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it is a denunciation of everything that is not allowed in life to be real life, it's plenitude.

I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

To make headway, improve your head.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.