The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

Since my childhood I learned that to understand the world we need to go further and take the risks of sailing in unknown seas.

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me.

The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -