It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

I know that I am not always right to the perception of some, but I am not daunted of being wrong. That's the effectiveness of confidence.

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility

There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.

In Chile they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. I am not a Latin American creator.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

I wouldn't make it through the day without singing. It is my solace and my meditation and my release. It lets me know how I'm processing things, what I'm processing, if I'm out of touch in some area.

Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.