I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

Thank God for the theater.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X, ' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Summer skylarks Dart about the heavens Above the deep mountains.

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning!

There is a window from one heart to another heart.