This book is an anthology of quotes from Jose Marti and selected facts about Jose Marti. "Liberty is the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect." "Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate." "Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real grief he creates them." "Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy." "This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains." "Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas." "A selfish man is a thief." "Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything." "To govern well, one must see things as they are."