I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cubas political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest. – Fidel Castro
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. – Fidel Castro
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. – Fidel Castro
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. – Fidel Castro
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. – Reginald Farrer, In a Yorkshire Garden, 1909