We Chileans like the Germans for their sausage, their beer, and their Prussian helmets, as well as the goose step our military adopted for parades, but in practice we try to emulate the English. We admire them so much that we think we're the English of Latin America, just as we believe that the English are the Chileans of Europe.

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

Everything changes but change itself.

Change is the law of life.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.