No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

We must establish a new world order based on justice, on equity, and on peace.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

My past is everything I failed to be.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

The task of the prophet is not to smooth things over but to make things right.

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.