There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Love is supposed to be based on trust, and trust on love, it's something rare and beautiful when people can confide in each other without fearing what the other person will think.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.

Successful people use their strength by recognizing, developing, and utilizing the talents of others.