I neglected my health, and I was reluctant to have medical check-ups. It was a fundamental mistake for a revolutionary, to the Venezuelan people and the international public opinion.

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The grand destroyer of the world, and the greatest threat... is represented by U.S. imperialism.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

Baseball teaches that errors are part of the game.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

If I should have a daughter, instead of "Mom," she's going to call me "Point B," because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.