Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.

There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

One cat just leads to another."[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?

Liberal papers are not necessarily liberal.

As an artist, I have to be the ambassador of everything.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.