I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.

I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything.

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.