The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty

I'm going to be a fairy.” Sarah announced, studying her file."What a surprise.” Nicole mumbled, closing the door.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.