This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

What I treasure most in life is being able to dream. During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future.

I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people's hearts.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Don't criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

Baseball is America's pastime, and that record is absolutely huge in the States.

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.