Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

I promise all Cuban mothers that I will never will make them weep.

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

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!