I am well aware that to be correct I should have said "the time of good men and good women", but this phrase lacks the harmony of degree scroll. I mean mankind as a whole.

This year's recipient of the award Príncipe de Viana de la Cultura is a magnificent example of the values that have represented our character. From the time I reached report my parents and teachers educated me, like everyone else, in the value of work, effort, the Withdrawal of what is easy to achieve what is valuable. Generosity and austerity, sobriety and discretion. The companionship, the healthy joy and the celebration lived with friends and family; the firm belief and fidelity to spiritual values together with the deep respect for those who have different values.

To always aspire to know more, to learn more, to work better and to devote oneself to just causes with great ambition, which has nothing to do with greed. All this together with a strong attachment to the land in every sense, not as an ecological varnish but as a root to nourish oneself in order to reach an integral balance.

All this describes this year's award Príncipe de Viana, and it is striking to see how his figure, discreet, sober, simple, kind and generous, encloses the spirit of a wise, cultured and cultivated man, studious, hardworking, demanding; very intelligent, refined, generous to the extreme and cheerful in a world, his own, which has hardly changed and which is shaped by his family, his friends, his work and the values that inspire his conduct.

In a world that for decades has changed its behavior patterns, in which nothing is produced and therefore, work, effort and sacrifice are an anachronism, a world in which the most speculative is the one that "shines" the most, figures like his represent a sign of confidence.

There remain for history phrases worthy of frontispieces that inaugurated the culture of ease, of sudden enrichment, of the spectacle of vanity that trivializes everything. Faced with them, we look for the wise and discreet man who, from the intimacy of his home, proclaims that the winner is not always the best. A person like this, in a circumstance like the current one, is a source of hope

That Antonio López, in a university auditorium is capable of call more attendees than the founder of one of the social networks; that a sample of his art in any museum congregates the largest issue of visitors that has ever been seen; That Rafael Moneo, from Tudela, represents the maximum prestige of the architect official document and receives the award Prince of Asturias for his discreet and brilliant work or that Antonio López, the universal who exhibits an intense work full of humility and surplus of greatness, accepts to become a little "Navarrese" by receiving the award Prince of Viana, makes me think with illusion that the time of the good men is approaching.