Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

Knowing isn't always believing.

I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.

I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

Popularity is not an accurate measurement of a man's worth in his community, nor of his estimation by Jehovah God.

Greed has taken the whole universe and nobody is worried about their soul.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

Before British title fights, I've played football on a Saturday before; it's silly as it is.

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

I am not a cat lover. I am a dog lover - but I'm only a lover of hypoallergenic dogs.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Even now I can't describe why I love skating so much.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property.

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.

I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.