Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

Freedom is very nice.

The ungrateful and mediocre people do not care if you do a thousand favors, in the end they get angry for the f**king favor you did not do them.

Envy and betrayal do not sleep, they are two things that always go hand in hand.

Never regret! If it was something good, it was incredible. If it was something bad, it was an experience.

May you, yours and those around you have the good and the beautiful in your favor; that next year as well as better is different, that it is yours. Embrace yours, life is today.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

A vow is a snare for sin.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

We are wiser than we know.

We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, — for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only, — for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man’s body were to be divided into two parts, we are all one flesh and blood.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.