We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

There is no reason to have problems between country and country, between government and government, when there is a separation of powers.

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Without ambition, nothing is achieved. Without work, nothing will be completed. The prize will not be sent until you earn it.

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.