"My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion."

“From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.”

“When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.”

“Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.”

“The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.”

“Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

“I have this obsession with really cool, old books.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Without forgiveness, there is no future.”

“When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.”