I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)