Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

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.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!