I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Let the world change you and you can change the world

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.