I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

I haven't any thirst for revenge.