The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.