I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

People need space to survive.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Hostages want to survive - they are very focused on their own little view of things.

We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.