Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.

I cannot personally imagine any U.S. president normalizing relations with him [Fidel Castro], as opposed to his brother, but I may prove wrong on this score.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

You are always a little bit wrong

There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of the first rappers to end their bars rhyming multisyllabically.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.

Listen to the voice that speaks inside