If you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

There is something intimate about playing a duet. It's touching the soul of another person without ever touching the flesh.

How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth...

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

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 is history, indeed, but a record of change?

There's a thin line between collectivity and chaos.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.