I'd like to go to Cuba.

I'd like to go to Cuba.

Because he'll take me to Cuba and I don't want to go to Cuba.

Fidel Castro for me is like a father.

I don't profess to have any religion, but if I did, my God would be Fidel Castro. He is like a ship that knew to take his crew on the right path.

It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.

Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

For in that city New York there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.

I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

I take things one step at a time.

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.