There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.