"I have never seen a single dollar bill in my life. I have never had a bank account. I have never had a private property."

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

"We are not going to give up our dreams. We are not going to give up our hopes."

"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is an abomination."

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."