"Perhaps the origin of the idea and the message got lost along the way. The slogan wasn't, "what a man is capable of doing for his faith". Instead, it was, "what a man, with faith in himself, can achieve". But if we take the religious aspect out of Justo, we cease to understand him."

"When you see the structure from afar, and without knowing what it is, it can seem a little messy and chaotic, maybe a little poorly built. But when you realize it was built by one man alone, you get goosebumps."

"As a Catholic, I have to be authentic. When I watch a football match, I never see all of it, and I ask God to forgive me for watching it. Because for me, it's idolatry. A man can't sell a football player for five billion. That's paganism."

"He's a very crazy person. Everyone says he's crazy, everyone. I also think he's crazy. The way he speaks, the way he lives, it makes him crazy."

"God has created wonders with circles. The sun and moon are circles. The eye is round and it's beautiful. The circle is from God, but the angle is the Devil's doing."

"I think he's making a fool out of himself for his whole life, because he'll never finish it."

"I'm very eccentric. I do everything excessively. Maybe some people tell me I'm crazy. Others maybe say I'm vain. Others say something else, but everyone is wrong. I'm not crazy."

"You can't build a cathedral, or even a house, without complex calculations and without studies in architecture. But Justo has no education of any kind, not even primary school. So, finding a human explanation for the building seems even more difficult to me than finding a supernatural one."

"The graveyard is full of good intentions, but people never fulfil them. I'm different, I go for it. I've got myself all the way here."

"I do it for faith. That's clear, no?"

"My love of Christ means I will go to the ends of the world. People get tired and bored because they have no ideals. They haven't given themselves to Christ, the creator."

"I saw the Communists destroy all the churches here, with people laughing and dancing in the ruins. But when you believe, you can then also rebuild with your own hands a beautiful new place."

"The world is vain. The world is ungrateful. I have to search for the truth. Do the opposite of what others do."

"I demand a lot from myself, I reflect a lot, I search for the truth. That's what I was born to do, to be a witness to the truth."

"Per sapïenza in terra fue | di cherubica luce uno splendore. (Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia XI, 37-39)"

"I believe, Most Blessed Father, that in order to reward Mr. Duca's ardent faith in some way, Your Holiness should have the kindness to confer upon him or his brother Don Rodrigo, canon of the cathedral of Toulouse, the sacred purple, which he has already earned through his expeditions, staining it with the accursed blood of those wretches. It is enough for his name to be heard in these countries for the Albigensian heretics to tremble from head to toe. His custom is to go around the courts, dispatching the most angry ones in one fell swoop. Those who fall into his hands are forced to profess our faith with the formula prescribed by Your Holiness. If they refuse, he has them beaten thoroughly while the stake is lit. Then he asks them if they are repentant and, upon hearing that they are not, concludes: “Either believe or die.” They are burned slowly to give them time to repent and earn eternal forgiveness. Some of these wretched souls, though very rarely, showed signs of retraction and horror at the death they deservedly suffered as they breathed their last; and I consoled myself in the Lord by observing those acts that could be signs of repentance. The more they struggled, the more we rejoiced in"

"Dominic, who wished to found a religious Order of theologian-preachers, reminds us that theology has a spiritual and pastoral dimension that enriches the soul and life. Priests, the consecrated and also all the faithful may find profound "inner joy" in contemplating the beauty of the truth that comes from God, a truth that is ever timely and ever alive. Moreover the motto of the Friars Preachers contemplata aliis tradere helps us to discover a pastoral yearning in the contemplative study of this truth because of the need to communicate to others the fruit of one's own contemplation."

"I receive this appointment, believing that only grace can realize the keys that I received in my vocation: to live and transmit the Gospel with the sacrifice of my life and my reputation, faithful to the greatest testimony of love, to give up my life together with Christ for our Heavenly Father"

"Everything was a bigger struggle for me, everything required a bigger effort, so I understood that the sole basis for my future was discipline, and I maintain that discipline today, at 75...I mean, going out onstage to sing is an act of discipline and of absolute passion. Passion is natural, but discipline is willpower."

"I regret not having taken more advantage of time — of the solidity of time, the intention of time. That’s why I don’t like to sleep much anymore. Had I known when I was 20 that I was going to be a musician, I would have taken to the piano, I would have taken the guitar more seriously, I would have perfected my knowledge of music."

"I still have the passion in my heart. If I don’t sing, my heart doesn’t beat so strong..."

"The feeling is the same. You close your eyes and you are on the stage and you feel that warmth from the people."

"[Don Quijote] escribio sobre una gallina, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio; y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el celebro, de manera que vino a perder el juicio. Llenósele la fantasía de todo aquello que leía en los libros, así de encantamentos como de pendencias, batallas, desafíos, heridas, requiebros, amores, tormentas y disparates imposibles; y asentósele de tal modo en la imaginación que era verdad toda aquella máquina de aquellas sonadas soñadas invenciones que leía, que para él no había otra historia más cierta en el mundo. Decía él que el Cid Ruy Díaz había sido muy buen caballero, pero que no tenía que ver con el Caballero de la Ardiente Espada, que de sólo un revés había partido por medio dos fieros y descomunales gigantes."

"He asked nothing but justice of Heaven, and of man he asked only a fair field."

"Ipse Rodericus, Meo cidi saepe vocatus, De quo cantatur quod ab hostibus haud superatur, Qui domuit Mauros, comites domuit quoque nostros."

"Sir, I am not in your land, but in my own."

"On one of these occasions to some of those greedy people (Native Californians) who requested permission to go to the woods (To hunt for food) I answered with certain annoyance: "Well, you make me realize that now that, although you were given a steer, a mutton, and a fanega of grain every day, you would, despite all this, long for your woods and your shores." Then the keenest-witted Indian of those who had heard me replied, somewhat shamefacedly, "It is so Father, as you say, it is so.""

"It is evident that a nation (Referring to native Californians) that is barbarous, ferocious, and ignorant requires more frequent punishment than a nation which is cultured, educated, and of gentle and moderate."

"It happens that they put on a heathen and abominable dance or fiesta; if the Christian who is present refuses to participate in that vile diversion, they mock him and laugh at him and persecute him until he gives in."

"We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do."

"The worse the better for all and the worse for all the better, the better for me, in your political benefit."

"Roads must be used by cars and airplanes must fly in airports."

"Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?"

"As Galileo said, the movement always accelerates when it is going to stop."

"What we have done, which you did not do, is deceiving people."

"We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn."

"A glass is a glass and a plate is a plate."

"It is one thing to be supportive, and another to ask for things in exchange of nothing."

"Spain is a great nation and Spaniards very Spanish and much Spanish."

"And the European one?"

"Exporting is positive because you sell what you produce."

"The most important thing we can do for you is what you can do for yourselves."

"Spain is a great country which make things and have Spanish people."

"This is not like the water that falls from the sky, without knowing exactly why."

"You can not be an absurd optimist, but you also can not have a sad or cramped approach because at the moment so is out of reality."

"It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors to be the mayor."

"To me, being president of the country is awesome."

"A historical figure gives up leaving an unpayable debt."

"Neither Hitler nor Stalin have been named persona non grata in Pontevedra."