I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

The march to freedom is irreversible.

If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don’t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.