For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

I resent the hell out of the politicians and generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories we'll have when we're old.

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.

Papi, I don't know what to do anymore." Lourdes begins to cry. "No matter what I do, Pilar hates me.""Pilar doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet.

Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

Trust funds can never be a substitute for a fund of trust.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.