For me Christ was not to be bought for thirty pieces of silver but with my heart's blood. We buy not cheap in this market.

Castro wasn't a Marxist. He was a Catholic educated by the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits. But fundamentally, I'm not talking about practising Catholics, but rather about something which is inbred; that is, a part of your country, your heritage, your life.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

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. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge to work together and recognise that they are on the right track.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.