Quotes

My life is now an open book.

We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in our life.

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.

When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

I've never hurt anybody, never in my life. That's not my character or who I am.

There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is the same.

I think you just do the best you can to follow the dreams that you have and to make the most out of what you enjoy out of your life. That sets the road in front of you.

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

I see my boys about 10 days every month. And, yes, they are the most important people in my life.