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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.