We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

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!

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the half of it.'

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

The president has said Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.