The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

It is such a privilege to learn from children as they discover new worlds of possibility and give themselves full over to their dreams, inspiring a few adults along the way.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

Magic, indeed, is all around us, in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud; all we need is the ability to see and understand.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

The Beatles said 'all you need is love,' then they broke up.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.