Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.

The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.