No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.

The light of God surrounds me The love of God enfolds me The power of God protects me The Presence of God watches over me Wherever I am God is.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.