"The greatest glory of the revolution is to have made it possible for any Cuban to feel the owner of his own destiny."

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

"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."

"The revolution is a science. The revolution is an art. The revolution is a philosophy."

"I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last day of my life."