A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Hope can live in a vacuum.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!)and I watched him as he took and took:none of it I could claim as mine.

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.