I know there isn't anything I can do that will please everybody. But if I have done according to my beliefs, I sleep very very well.

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy.

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.