Because trust earned by action is always better than words.

If you cannot solve a problem, ask someone who knows.

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.