I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

I fight because international law recognises my right.

Being patient does not mean being silent.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Brotherhood is born in adversity.

Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone—I am not alone.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.