I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I love seeing my family.

You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.