“In our world of today, every day there are new and ever-more thorny problems rising up and they drain the abilities of the heads of state and governments who are called upon to deal with them. This is not a criticism: it is an observation. It cannot be expected of human beings to have supernatural abilities.Optimism will always be the best option. ”

“We have to make the brain cells work if we want to build consciences, so necessary in today’s complex world.”

“What the people in our country need most is knowledge, if what we want to do is create conscience.”

“The former colonies of powers that divided the world among them and plundered it for centuries constitute today the group of underdeveloped countries.

“While food prices triple, real estate fortunes and the treasures of the aristocratic minority reach millions of millions of dollars.”

“Today’s world is plundered and oppressed by the empire and its richest allies with their ruthless economic order, their financial institutions, their debts of trillions of dollars imposed on underdeveloped countries, which are forced every year to pay back more than they borrowed, thus increasing exponentially a debt which continues to multiply, leading hundreds of millions, billions of people toward the edge of an abyss of hopelessness.

“The adversary to be defeated is extremely strong; however, we have been able to keep it at bay for half a century”.

“The principle of being as prudent in success as steady in adversity cannot be forgotten.”

“I distrust the seemingly easy path of apologetics or its antithesis the self-flagellation. We should always be prepared for the worst variable”.

“Perhaps the most useful contribution to the struggle for a better world that we can make through our modest efforts will be to demonstrate how much can be done with so little, if all of the human and material resources of a society are put at the service of the people.”