You have to have the right atmosphere, really be in the right mood to really fully enjoy a Cohiba.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

Thank God for the theater.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.

Brave men die in battle.