We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

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!

The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries.

The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.

There's no straight line to progress.

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.