“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but refl...” — Honore de Balzac Quote

“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.”

“What is art? Nature concentrated.”

“I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.”

“We think, fundamentally, that the future story of Latin America, not only of Mexico but for all of Latin America, will be constructed from the bottom - that the rest of what's happening, in any case, are steps.”