In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

The fight against drug trafficking is a false pretext for the United States to install military bases.

We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.

The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Love will cost you dearly.And it will break your heart.But in the end, it will save the world.

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls!

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

I can't go to the cinema. I go to the bathroom in a petrol station and people come in there for autographs. It's tough but I knew that was going to be the case.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.