Peru

Capital:             Lima
Government:     Constitutional republic
Currency:         Nuevo sol (PEN)
Area:                1,285,220 km2
Population:       27,925,628 (July 2006 est.)
Language:         Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara

 Peru Quotes

 

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.
-Carlos Castaneda

 

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
-Mario Vargas Llosa

 

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
-Alberto Fujimori

 

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
-Carlos Castaneda

 

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
-Carlos Castaneda

 

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
-Mario Vargas Llosa

 

A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.
-Carlos Castaneda

 

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
-Mario Vargas Llosa

 

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
-Carlos Castaneda

 

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
-Mario Vargas Llosa

 

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
-Carlos Castaneda