"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"A heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the greatest battles are fought within."

"The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long."

"We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."

"It is a unyielding truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A humble soul understands that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."