Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

What we do is what means the most.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

I always wanted to be an artist, I just didn't know that you could be, or how you could be. I went to an art high school but they never even took me to a gallery.

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

Though in midst of life we be Snares of death surround us.

Music is one of the most amazing things to me and it's an honor to connect with people through it.

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.