"My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future."

"Hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself."

"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."

"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word."

"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men."

"Conscience, in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others."

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth."

"The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."