I love the forest.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Wildness is not found but revealed.

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

Travel is the ultimate inspiration.

It is a pity that Elizabeth and I cannot marry each other. Our children would have gained mastery over the whole world.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

Speak your mind, but ride a fast horse.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.