Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

There is a big difference between surrendering and knowing that enough was enough.

The way, to have to be able to buy food is to survive is to grow poppy and marijuana.

Rich one who is sastifed with what God gives him.

I know one day I will die. I hope it’s of natural causes.

Well, from the time I was 15 and after, where I come from, which is the municipality of Badiraguato, I was raised in a ranch named La Tuna, in that area, and up until today, there are no job opportunities. The only way to have money to buy food, to survive, is to grow poppy, marijuana, and at that age, I began to grow it, to cultivate it and to sell it. That is what I can tell you.

I am who I am. I like what I like. I do what I want. It’s my life, not yours.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.