I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Are you in pain, pray?

New day, new delight.

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

fight hard, fight fair and persevere

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

In Fact, My Soul And Yours Are The Same, You Appear In Me, I In You.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.