Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

The Communists in Cuba didn't assist Castro in his revolution. They weren't on the side of the students. They didn't do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.