“There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.” 

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

“When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.” 

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.” 

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.” 

“I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.” 

“Remember that all the others are more afraid than you” 

“Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.” 

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.” 

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” 

“I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.”

“Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have courage to complain, that’s their problem.”

“Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.” –

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.”

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.” 

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped enough people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry

The objective is to control your time – a non-renewable resource – and apply it where you have the highest leverage or enjoyment.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” 

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”