For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

The news media in general are liberals.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.