"I spoke with Fidel one entire night, and at dawn, I was already the doctor of his future expedition...Fidel impressed me as an extraordinary man.  The most impossible of things were those he took on and resolved. He had exceptional faith that once he would set out for Cuba, he would arrive.  That once he arrived, he would fight.  And that fighting, he would win."

"I shared his optimism. We had to do, to fight, to make things concrete.  We had to stop crying and fight."