On World Humanitarian Day, he said:
“Sign language for me means the air I breathe; it gives hope for life; it is the means to convey the voice of deaf people. Sign language has become part of my life, and I feel that through it, I deliver messages that deaf people have rights. The way to obtain those rights goes through sign language, because the interpreter is the one who transforms hand gestures into words. For more than 30 years, I have worked with this language, which has become part of me, and I have become part of it. It has become my way of connecting with the world.”