We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

You have a great many things to do when you are under house arrest. On the one hand, it is more comfortable than sitting in prison; on the other hand, you have to look after a household, which is strenuous under such circumstances.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.