Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

In the Third World, there are 1.3 billion poor people. In other words, one out of every three inhabitants lives in poverty.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.