I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

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.