Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

Reality is always too complicated - that's why it's ungraspable.

A 'good man' is a male creature that survives the endless episodes that its woman spends complaining about women who she hates, and, women who hate her.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.

Success means doing things you don't want to do.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin