If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.