I'm rather inclined to liking people.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

After I was released, people used to keep asking me, 'what's it like to be free? And it was very difficult for me to answer. I'd always felt free. As far as my state of mind was concerned, I didn't feel any different...People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.