We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

The future doesn't frighten me, even if it threatens to be full of other difficulties.

My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.