Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a community identifies with something that symbolizes its favourite way of dreaming, living, dancing, playing or loving. This is the positive side of the world: a constant intermingling that produces new responses to new challenges. But because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.