"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."