Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me.""Pilar doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

I will have nothing to do with a bomb!

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.