I think Fidel [Castro] has a stronger allergy to the market than his brother, but he is not getting in the way of what his brother is implementing.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

Pretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.

Cuban mechanics obviously have to be the best mechanics in the world.They're going to figure out all sorts of things to do.

I would just not be surprised if, 10 years from now, there is a Trump golf course at the Bay of Pigs. Just mark my words.

Iran is the prime state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

The ill that comes out of our mouth falles into our bosome.

Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

Dobby has no master. Dobby is a free elf!

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.