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

There is talk of the failure of socialism, and where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America?

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

So these Red Sox, are they a Communist organization?

We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

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

Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its Did I say socialism?

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.

There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

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

I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

I would rather clean than beg.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I’d done since I went out on my own at 15.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Clean your slate. Empty your cup. Let every moment. Fill you up.

He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.

It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.