I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

The sardines had their heads on and they were like watching you.