I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

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

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 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.

What is energy? Everything is energy.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Delay of justice is injustice.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can't take a walk in the park . I can't go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you're in prison.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.