“I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.”

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital – which is the interest – returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Yoga does things with the human body that defy the imagination.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba’s political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

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

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

Once I learned about grassroots organizing, I got so enamored with it because I thought ‘Wow this is the way you do it!’

If your mother does not love you well or is no longer here to love you well, may you feel worthy enough to open to the thousand tiny ways the spirit of mother longs to love you today.

I love you in a way I’ve never been able to love or be loved.

Style is a display of character. It’s also a great way to express yourself and the ladies like it.

The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.

Don’t focus so hard on creating your best life that you wind up missing your life along the way.

I’m satisfied and proud of the things I did – even the bumps and the bruises that I’ve had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that’s what we’re doing.

I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain’t going the way they should go, they let you know… and when they happy, you gotta keep ’em happy.