I am fundamentally an optimist.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace.

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

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

I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.