...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.