We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

Thank God for the theater.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Fear of dying brings humans the greatest pain. Death is implicit in every form of joy. Of course, it also brings the end of pain.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.