When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

One should mature over 20 years.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.